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a man had better travel on a turnpike than 

 a bog ; I (hall not wafte any of your time^ 

 or my own, in difcuding fuch general mat- 

 ters : I mean in thefe papers particularly 

 to explain fome matters of confequence 

 that have been omitted by former writers. 

 Many of you poffcfs very improvable 

 eftates : — and your certainty of this fa6t, 

 is frequently all ycu know of the matter. 

 This 13 no reproach j men of fortune, of 

 education, of a turn of mind that leads to 

 other amufements, cannot be fuppofed to 

 be connoifTeurs in barns and hogfties, 

 ditches and dunghills, or clays, and fands. 

 To fuch I beg leave to remark, that my 

 defign is not to initiate them into the mi- 

 nutiae of fuch myileries, but to point out 

 an eafy method for them to give the pro- 

 per orders to their ftevvards, overfeers, &c. 

 who manage for them. To others, who 

 have a knowledge of thefe matters, 1 fhall 

 only offer my ideas, as hints for their con- 

 fideration j efpccially as many of them 

 may have attended to fome particulars, 

 without having troubled themfelves fo 

 much as to reduce their knowledge to a 

 regular plan of operation. 



7 I flialt 



