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Upon turning his attention to agricul- 

 ture, his Lordfhip found the hufbandry of 

 the Weft, Riding of York/hire^ extremely de- 

 ficient in numerous particulars : It was 

 difguiling to him to view fo vaft a pro- 

 perty, cultivated in fo flovenly a manner ; 

 eager to fuhftitute better methods in the 

 room of fuch unpleafing as well as unpro- 

 fitable ones, he determined to exert himfelf 

 with foirit in the attempt ; and he execu- 

 ted the noble fcheme in a manner that does 



honour to his penetration. A very few 



particulars, among many of the common 

 practice, will fliew how much this country 

 wanted a Rockingham to animate its culti- 

 vation. 



i. Large tracts of land, both grafs and 

 arable, yielded but a trifling profit, for 



quantities of as fine timber as any in Britain. Let an/ 

 one judge of the poffibility of fuch a fituation being 

 bleak: the face of the whole neighbourhood is that of 

 a thick woodland, rather than an open or a bleak 



country. Further, a bill cuts off every proffc't : 



they might have faid, did cut off a profpeit ; but at 

 prefent it is directly the reverie, for Lord Rockingham 

 (as I mentioned in the firft edition as well as the pre- 

 fent) has cut away that hill and let in the profpect, 



which before was hidden. 1 fhould by no means 



have bellowed this note in anfwer to criticifms on the 

 f tile and expreffion of a book of hufbandry; but 

 when the direct evidence of my fenfes is belied, I find 

 it difficult to refrain from this flight remark. 



want 



