iv PREFACE. 



There is alio a greater temptation to 

 the production of fuch dida&ic works 

 as are moft ufual in agriculture, than 

 to the lefs entertaining minutiae of com- 

 mon management. The man who 

 compofes a piece for inftructing others 

 how to conduct their lands, generally 

 includes all forts of foils, fituations, and 

 circumftances; his views are great, his 

 work comprehensive, round, and com- 

 plete, and every reader finds fomething 

 that fuits him. The fuccefs which has 

 attended the complete b dies, general 

 treatifes, and d Bknaries of the fub- 

 ject, though compiled by men as much 

 acquainted with aftronomy, as with 

 agriculture, muft have been owing to 

 thefe circumftances: as the good recep- 

 tion of well written, though erroneous 

 theories is, to the agreeable bearing 

 awry the palm due to the nfefid alone. 

 But a reader who would wifh. to receive 

 real information, fhould readily give up 

 the pieafure of being amufed for the 

 ufe of being inftructed ; the number 

 of fuch, however, will always be com- 

 paratively 



