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hiifbandiy : They are ufefiil hints, which 

 an able cultivator will not fervilely copy, 

 well knowing that lb much depends on 

 circumiiancesi feafons, and unavoidable 

 accidents, that two experiments fcarce ever 

 fucceed exactly alike ; but he will ufe them 

 as a fkilful painter appropriates the beauties 

 of landfcape ; he contemplates the various 

 objeds which nature prefents to his view, 

 and, full of that idea, forms his picture. 

 But the moll ufeful of all experiments, are 

 thofe of one's own making ; they make a 

 lafting impreflion, and are the fource or 

 real knowledge. 



The eftate where I have rended fevera! 

 years, coniiits of upwards of fix thoufand 

 acres, and contains three villages at about 

 a mile's diftance from each other, and nearly 

 in the center of the ellate : The inhabitants 

 were, at my firft fettling in the country, 

 about one hundred and fifty in number, 

 and are now encrcafed to two hundred. 

 The uninclofed parts of this eftate, or what 

 is called Wolds, of 5000 acres, have never 

 been let for more than a lliilling per acre ; 

 and what I here fay of a particular pariili, 

 is applicable to a very cxtenfive country, 

 20 miles long, by 15 broad. The foil of 

 the v/olds is in general a light hazle mould, 

 in fome places intermixed with fmall ftone, 

 flint, or gravel ; the depth of foil is from 

 three inches to a foot, in general not lefs 



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