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concerns hufbandry, and dwell alone on 

 the defcription of houfes and gardens, — 

 and not a few, perhaps, who feek the lat- 

 ter, are accidentally led to imore ufeful 

 paifages, and become undefignedly ac- 

 quainted with agriculture. — However, if I 

 have been in this refpect to blame, it is by 



no means a matter of confequence ; -my 



farming readers may pafs over thofe meets; 

 and in the general reflections I offer at laft, 

 neither architecture, painting, nor garden- 

 ing will interfere with rent, crops, and 

 culture. 



Thirdly, I mould requeue, that the far- 

 mers will not fuppofe I have been inat- 

 tentive in fuch parts of the work as are 

 incomplete in the common articles of in- 

 telligence. I put the fame queftions to 

 every one, but very few were able to an- 

 fwer me all, confequently many gaps muft 

 appear : Every article varies in the ex- 

 tent of the intelligence ; and this general 

 remark, I think, much better than infert- 

 ing a firing of negatives in every day's 

 journey. 



Some of my readers may poffibly think 

 I have been too free in inferting the parti- 

 culars of farms; it would be anticipating 

 my fubject to explain fully my motives, 

 but I refer to the general deductions at the 

 conclufion, where I apprehend the neceffity 



of 



