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incitement to the study op 

 Agriculture. 



A Competent knowledge of Agricul- 

 ture is the moft ufeful fcience a 

 gentleman can obtain ; it is the nobleft 

 amufement the mind can employ itfelf 

 in, and tends, at the fame time, to the 

 increafe of private property, and public 

 benefit. Nor is this ftudy, fo neceflary 

 and ferviceable to mankind, attended with 

 much difficulty, or labour j but is even 

 entertaining In the acquifition : for its 

 chief injftructions are to be found in the 

 pieafant and open fields, and not in the 

 confined library. To gentlemen whofe 

 property is realized in land, this is one of 

 the mofl important objeds they have be- 

 fore them. Indeed to them it becomes a 

 duty, which they owe not only to them- 



felves. 



