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 through the country, is iufficient to fee 

 this : Their manure is laid on grafs very 

 fparingly ; they take fcarce any care in 

 cleaning them from trumpery and rubbifh; 

 fuch as bufhes, briars, molehills, and even 

 thirties and docks : they have as little no- 

 tion of keeping old paftures level by 

 fmoothing all inequalities of the iurface ; 

 and as to the laying arable land down to 

 grafs, they do it in che ridge and furrow- 

 way, fow a very fcanty meafure of feeds, 

 and attend very little to the foil then being 

 in good heart. 



And here I cannot but remark, the fin- 

 gular judgment with which Lord Rocking- 

 ham has practifed agriculture. He firft 

 firft took a general and comprehenfive 

 view of the common hufbandry of his 

 neighbourhood, and then applied his at- 

 tention peculiarly to thofe points in which 

 that common hufbandry was moft de- 

 fective. 



I cannot take my leave of thefe purfuits, 

 fo truly worth of a Brit'iJJj nobleman 

 of a philofopher and of a man, with- 

 out remarking how greatly the example 

 calls for imitation. Thofe who have de- 

 clined the employments and amufements 

 of agriculture under the falfe idea of 

 their being mean and unworthy of great 



riches 



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