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of the Illand, would form an interefling 

 part of its history* 



That the Rural Managements, no\V 

 found in different Provinces, have had 

 difl:in(fl origins, or have been raifed to the 

 ftates in which we now feverally find them, 

 by very different circumffances, is moil 

 evident. But whether the obvious dif- 

 tincftions, which now appear, have arifen, 

 from the circumftance of the firil fettlers 

 of the Illand having migrated from different 

 countries ; or from that of fubfequent con- 

 querors having introduced their refpedtive 

 fyflems ; or that of improvements having 

 taken different routes, in different Diftridts, 

 — is by no means a queffion that can be 

 promptly anfwered. 



By comparing minute details of the 

 praiftices of difterent Provinces, with the 

 minutis of pradiice, obfervable in the fe* 

 veral Countries of the Continent, fome- 

 thing might be determined refpedirig this 

 fubjedl. 



That the outlines of Management, in 



different parts, have arifen, in fome mea- 



K z fure, 



