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leat ; he has read the faulty part of Mr. 

 BoswELL's book, and hence, mistaking 

 the practice in its principles, has issued his 

 instructions accordingly, and has formed 

 all his positions, and his plates, in entire 

 conformity to that very inadequate plan 

 called Catch-work. 



I shall pass over Mr. Young's ten first 

 directions, as they are too inoffensive to be 

 meddled with; but his eleventh instruc- 

 tion is of a very different cast : for in this 

 he says (page 303) " here tlie operatoi: 

 " must be instructed, that the lands usu- 

 " ally chosen for the first operations, are 

 " just those that ought to be the last, viz, ; 

 " the low flat meadows by the river. 

 " These are by far the most expensive to 

 " irrigate, and when done, unless very 

 " well executed indeed, yield tlie worst 



*' hay." 



Now 



