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LETTER XLV. 



Dublin, Sept. 23, 1815. 



OUR first engagement this morning was to 

 visit the establishment of the Fanning Society 

 of Ireland at Summer-hill ; the high reputation 

 and celebrity of which are the best evidence 

 of the benefits derived to the country from its 

 labors. 







As a point of union connecting the landed 

 gentry with men of science and practical know- 

 ledge, it cannot fail of producing important 

 results, and extensively diffusing a spirit for im- 

 provement. From the parent society have 

 sprung several provincial establishments ; and, 

 in every part of the country, efforts are making 

 to inspire a taste for agriculture and improve- 

 ment. The augmented estimation in which 

 these are now held has advanced the character 

 of the practical farmer, and opened to him a 

 road not only to respectability but to public 

 favor and celebrity : nor are these resulting ad- 

 vantages confined to him, but extended to all 

 classes of meritorious laborers on the soil, not 



