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edition of my Treatise on Watering, I 

 shall take new ground, adopt new terms, 

 and give a description as free as I can 

 from provincial and technical words, and, 

 if possible, not liable to misconception. 

 I shall endeavom' to convey only one idea 

 of the true objects of the practice, at 

 least the objects which the farmers in the 

 county of Gloucester, (where I am per- 

 suaded that Floating, has been practised 

 as long, upon as rational a system, and 

 with as beneficial eifects, as in any part of 

 this country), wish thereby to obtain, 

 and which I will venture to assert, ought 

 to be the only objects in every county, 

 and in every situation, where the climate 

 is of the same temperature with that of 

 England. 



Any person, however, who has read 

 Mr.MARSHALLs Rural Economy of Glou- 

 cester, 



