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tained by confulting her"*; which re- 

 duces all our profitable refearches upon 

 hufbandry, merely to two points : Firft, 

 to find out. Whether our refpedtive lands 

 are properly applied to the ufe for which 

 nature defigned them ? and next. Whe- 

 ther we pradlfe the beft methods of art 

 which have been hitherto adopted ? In 

 making this enquiry, it will appear that 

 great abfurditles are frequently pradlfed 

 in the mifapplicatlon of crops, or in an 

 improper fucceffion of them ; and it will 

 be equally apparent, that the beft me- 

 thods of art are far from centering all in 

 one fpot. Every county feems to abound 

 in excellencies and defers : but as every 



* Mr. Black of Lutton, in Eflex, one of the beft 

 judges of the nature and value of land, who praftifes 

 as a furveyor, has llridly conformed himfelf to this 

 idea; and the deferved reputation which he has ac- 

 quired, is the beft proof that can be given of his having 

 taken a furc guide. 



B 3 farmer 



