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to the errors of their predecessors, and are 

 from ignorance and prejudice, fearful and dis- 

 inclined to abandon the over-beaten tract of 

 mismanagement. 



To-morrow we inspect some of the best 

 farming in this district, and afterwards attend 

 the annual show of the Wigtonshire Agricul- 

 tural Society. I feel how very unreasonable it 

 is to expect your patience should endure my 

 prolixity. Nothing is so difficult as to know 

 where to stop on a subject so interesting. Yet 

 I must conclude ! And though with perfect con- 

 sciousness of my own exorbitance, I really have 

 not resolution to promise amendment. I must 

 therefore rely on your mercy and forgiveness, 

 for I fear " I shall sin and repent repent and 



sin again. Adieu. 



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