viii PREFACE, 



neighbourhood, where the author lived 

 and wrote. 



To render this fort of knowledge 

 genera] and corrplete, it is necefTary 

 that every gentleman refiding in the 

 country, and practifing agriculture, 

 fhould write and publifh an account of 

 fo much as falls within the fphere of 

 his obfervation : The experience of 

 centuries has {hewn us how much this 

 may be expected. Were it done, fuch 

 journies as I have regiftered and pub- 

 lifhed, would have been perfectly un- 

 nt-cefTary. A man who has attended 

 fome years to hufbandry in one place, 

 would have it in his power to gain a 

 far better and more particular account 

 of every circumftance than it is pofli- 

 ble a traveller fhould procure. 



Thefe accounts however having no 

 exigence, fuch as I have more than 

 once offered to the public, may have 

 their ule: what fhould chiefly induce 

 the reader to think {o^ is their being 



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