tae rllontog Treatise, writes io the patie of private = % 
first ‘appeared in the Albany Argus, during the present year. The 
‘partiality with which it was then received, has induced the edi- 
on of that paper, to eine Site the public, in a, less, perishable 
orm. 
\ The principal object of the writer was to contribute his aid, in 
sgienig to the practice and study of Agriculture, a new and increased 
impulse throughout the state ; and he supposed this could be best 
done by exhibiting, goncisely, the origin and progress of the art, its 
present, condition abroad 2 and at home, and lastly, the theory ‘and 
practice, in relation to it, which have arisen out of the present state 
of philosophical attainments in Europe. In executing the work, 
‘his principal care has been to offer only established facts and useful 
opinions ; -and ‘ify by: these. means, he has succeeded in reducing the 
contents of many heavy volumes, into a single and small octavo, he 
has entirely fulfilled his own “expectations, and probably not disap- 
me. the wishes of his readers. 
i ) THE AUTHOR. 
December, 1819. 
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