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Now this is a sentence which involves a 

 variety of error and fallacy; and as it 

 comes from a veteran in agriculture, and 

 almost ex cathedra, and as every error 

 therein contained is, therefore, pregnant 

 with double danger, it ought to be op- 

 posed with double freedom and firmness : 

 for if the advice of Mr. Young, in this 

 one sentence, were to be generally enter- 

 tained and acted upon, it would miserably 

 circumscribe, cripple, and degrade this 

 profitable branch of husbandry. Mr. 

 Young here teaches the agriculturist to 

 water by units, when he has it in his 

 power to float by tens, or perhaps by 

 hundreds ; he sends him about in pursuit 

 of pence, when pounds lie before him; 

 and he encourages that propensity, which 

 we find already too prevalent in many, to 

 play little tricks with a little limped water 

 on the sides of hills, when they have it in 

 n2 their 



