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andWaks, propofing to undertake this furn- 

 mer a Tgur through The North of 

 England, begs leave torequeft fuchtpf the 

 nobility, gentry, landlords, farmers, and 

 others, as poflefs, or are acquainted with, 

 any particular improvements, experiments, 

 cuftoms, implements, <&c. in the agricul- 

 ture of the following counties, viz. Hert- 

 fordshire, Bedford/hire, Huntingdonjhire, 

 Nortbamptonjhire, Rutland '/hire, Leicejler- 

 Jhir&i Nottingham/hire, Lincoln/loir e, Der- 

 by/hire, York/hire, Durham, Northumber- 

 land^ Qumhcrland, JVe/l more land, LancaJJjire, 

 c, Shrofiffjire, StaffordJJjire, Worcef- 

 terjlrire, Vl\ir",vickjhire, and Buckingham- 

 [hire, to inform him of fuch circumftances, 

 with exacjt directions to the places where 

 fuch improvements, &c. are carried on. 

 He fhould not take the liberty of this 

 general addrefs to pcrfons unknown, were 

 it not, that he might probably, without this 

 previous intimation, overlook many im- 

 provements and experiments in hufbandry, 

 and return unacquainted with many prac- 

 tices, implements, fee. which deferve to be 

 univerfally known. And it certainly is of 

 indisputable confequence to the welfare of 

 iculture, that every thing commendable 

 in the practice of it, mould not be confined 

 to particular diRricts, but published for 

 genera] good. The Author is not unac- 

 quainted with the improvement of waile 



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