PREFACE. xkvu 



Europe — while my writings will ftand 

 the teft with fuch men as a Harte, a 

 Haller, and an Arbuthnot, I am per- 

 fectly indifferent to the ideas ot the 

 Moores, Shirleys, MSrfhals, and Wim- 

 peys of the age. 



There is one part of thefe papers 

 which particularly demand an apology. 

 I have ventured to recommend to the 

 gentlemen of Ireland feveral courfes of 

 hufbandry, as improvements upon what 

 I found them practifing, and have given 

 directions how they fhould be perform- 

 ed. This is going a little out of my 

 way; for it is that fpecies of writing 

 which I am apt to condemn. Inftruc- 

 tions in this fubjecl: fhould, more than 

 in any other,, be gathered limply from 

 the regifter of experiments and repeat- 

 ed obfervations : but having been re- 

 queued by many gentlemen on the 

 journey to do it, I have lubmitted to 

 their opinion, rather in contradiction to 

 mv own. I have reflected attentively 

 on the circumftances or Ireland before 

 I drew up thefe recommendations ; and 



I believe,' 



