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 LETTER VJ., b 



, c tif79 tfUJOV Vt. 

 Merton Hall, August 16, 1813. 



J_ HE whole of this morning was devoted to 

 farming : Mr. Boyd's operations offered much 

 to interest and gratify. Good management, 

 though always entitled to praise, is not always 

 duly appreciated. 



Great pains, great perseverance, and an in- 

 exhaustible share of well-founded hope, were 

 necessary to commence, continue, and accom- 

 plish an undertaking, approved by few con- 

 demned by many, whose judgment entitled 

 them to respect ; and derided by those whose 

 opinions were inconsequential. Those who 

 now witness the successful results of his labors 

 can form no adequate idea of the difficulties 

 which he has had to encounter, no less than 

 one hundred acres of morass, on which no 

 beast could travel, no esculent plant would 

 thrive, have been reclaimed, drained, and cul- 

 tivated ; and are now waving with luxuriant 

 crops of grain, 



