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feparate Urong/)/^/^, twifted into a form refcm- 

 bling the mould-board of the modern little 

 plow of Yorkfliire and other Diftrids ; which, it 

 is probable, has been copied from the Norfolk 

 *' plat." Another thing remarkable in the 

 Norfolk plow, though not lingular to it, is 

 its having only one handle. 



There are readers, perhaps, who will ex- 

 pcdt that a drawing and dlmenfions of the 

 Norfolk plow, and, perhaps, of the other im- 

 plements peculiar to the country, ought to 

 have been given in this work ; in order that 

 copies of them might have been made in 

 other Diflri5:s. The idea, in theory, is plau- 

 fible ; and I have myfelf, as writers in general 

 on the fubjed of hufbandry have, fpent much 

 time in the purfuit of it. Experience, how- 

 ever, has convinced me that, with refpcdt to 

 myfelf at leaft, it has been time ill- fpent : 

 I have found even patterns infufficient guides 

 to workmen : fo much depends on minutice 



the fpccimens I have fcen of them, to be a valuable In- 

 vention. If they caa be mcAe fmn enough to Hand in a 

 fcony foil, and hard enough to retain a fufficlent edge ia 

 a gravel, they mull: prove, to agriculture in general, a 

 moft valuable acfjuiruion. Jan. 1787. 



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