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cester, or Mr. Turner's Survey of the 

 County, will be surprised on reading the 

 above commendation of the Gloucester- 

 shire mode of floating ; for in all their 

 circumstantial and extended accounts of 

 the husbandly of the district, he has 

 found little or nothing said, of this very 

 extraordinary method of fertilization, 

 though it has prevailed there more than 

 a century. Mr. Marshall has not even 

 hinted at the practice, and Mr. Turner 

 has mentioned it in a way, that makes it 

 appear insignificant. 



As I proceed, I shall take the liberty 

 of combating and contradicting many 

 positions and assertions of different writers 

 on this subject, which appear to me to, 

 have been the principal causes of the toO; 

 general misconception of the practice. 



I have 



