thousand acres to be converted info 

 Floated Meadows — and that every acre 

 so floated, has been increased three pounds 

 in annual value. 



Standing, therefore, upon this privi- 

 leged ground, I presume, in obedience to 

 the calls which I liave received through 

 the medium of my booksellers, and from 

 other quarters, once more to deviate a 

 little from the right line of my profes- 

 sional duty, and once more to offer my- 

 self as an advocate in the Cause, and as a 

 pilot in the practice of floating : ami in 

 the attempt to support these charactei's, 

 I am sorry to say, that I shall find it ne- 

 cessary again to "^lefend tlie fair fame of 

 my nniddy favourite, from the fresh, but 

 foul aspersions of certain dabbfers in 

 spring-water. r/udjifiilt 



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