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what I had fufpedtcd from reading his experi- 

 ments, that he wanted capital; without a 

 fufnxient one it is impoflible to farm well: — 

 A man may have all the abilities in the w T orld, 

 write like a genius, talk like an angel, and 

 realy understand the buiinefs in all its depths, 

 but unlefs he has a proper capital, his farm 

 will never be fit for exhibition ; — and then, to 

 condemn him for not being a good farmer in 

 practice as well as theory, is juft like abufing 

 the inhabitants oi the Irifh cabbins for not 

 becoming excellent managers. No idea could 

 be more ufeful, than that of encouraging 

 fuch a man as Mr. Baker, but a capital 

 fhould have been furnifhed him for bringing 

 his farm into order, and when it was fo, he 

 fhould have been directed not to try any ex- 

 periments ; becaufe thofe trials were for the 

 acquifition of knowledge in disputable points, 

 and the fociety wanted no fuch difquili- 

 tions, but the exhibition of a farm, cultivat- 

 ed in a manner which experience has rendered 

 jndifputable in England or eliewhere, 



Viewed Lucan, the feat of Agmondiiham 

 Vefey, Efq; on the banks of the LifFey ; the 

 houfe is rebuilding, but the wood on the ri- 

 ver, with walks through it, is exceeding beau- 

 tiful. The character of the place is that of 

 a fequeffered (hade. Diilnnt views are every 

 w 7 here ihut out, and the objects all corres- 

 pond perfectly with the impreiiion they were 

 dehVned to raife : it is a walk on the banks 



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