XVI 



ADDRESS 



I therefore folded my Plan; — with, 

 however, a degree of relu5iance ; — becaufe 

 I was confident that, were it carried into 

 execution, it would be produdliveof much 

 public good ', — but without any fhare of 

 regret ; — becaufe I had fully difcharged 

 my duty to my Country, to m.-^ profejjion, 

 and to my f elf. 



In Auguft 1780, I went down into 

 Norfolk, as agent to Sir HarbordHarbord's 

 eftate 3 — one of the firfl in that county. 



The management of EJiates, though a 

 fifler-art to Agriculture, or the manage- 

 ment of Farms, was in a manner new to 

 me; and, though intimately connected 

 with my Plan, had never ftruck me, as 

 being, what it really is, an infeparable de- 

 partment of Rural Economy. Eftate- 

 Agency, it is true, has always been treated 

 of by writers as a dilHnd: fubjecft; but it 

 has generally been found proper to explain, 

 in the fame book, the leading branches of 

 Agriculture; for, beyond difpute, the ma- 

 nagement of an Eftate cannot be con- 

 duced 



