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the crop, at 5 s. per bufhel, is worth 2 /. losi 

 and is not only a more valuable one, but 

 obtained at lefs expence, and as it requires 

 no manure, there will be a larger quantity 

 of dung to lay upon the remaining tillage 

 and grafs land, which will on that account 

 be proportionably improved, maintain a 

 greater number of inhabitants, a larger 

 ftock of cattle, and a more abundant fupply 

 of every production of the earth. 



Such is the relation this moft excellent 

 cultivator gives of the wold hufbandry, and 

 the methods by which it may be improved : 

 To add any thing would be impertinent ; 

 but I muft be allowed in one word to 

 remark, that Sir Digby has treated the 

 fubjed; with a philofophical precifion : 

 That he writes with the fenfe and 

 fpirit of a man of genius ; — is clear in all 

 his ideas, pradtical in his propofitions, and 

 equally candid and judicious in his de- 

 dudlions. He has examined the wolds, 

 downs, and heaths of the kingdom with 

 the eye of a moft experienced cultivator, 

 and the attention of a true patriot, 



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Since the firft edition I have been fur- 

 ther favoured with the following additional 

 letter. 



'* Sir, 



