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before noon, the flieep will often tell 

 them. If a continued rain be to enfue, 

 they generally feed, notwithftanding the 

 moifture, with great eagernefs -, knowing 

 that they {hall have no better weather for 

 that day. If they defifl from eating, herd 

 together in detached parties, and creep 

 under the hedges, they know the rain 

 will be over foon enough to afford them 

 time to fill their bellies. It is needlefs 

 to enumerate the advantages to be de- 

 rived from many more of thefe inftrudtive 

 agents ; I have mentioned thefe few, in 

 order to infinuate, that the great ftudy 

 and fuccefs of agriculture, the moft ufe- 

 ful of all fciences, indeed the nurfe of 

 them all, depends upon a due inveftiga- 

 tion of nature j that the true fecret or 

 myftery of afcertaining the value of land, 

 and knowing what plants are fuitable and 

 appofite to particular foils, muft be ob- 

 tained 



