PREFACE. 



of his system ; and which may, with great 

 propriety, be given in this prefatory man- 

 ner to the reader, as conveying, in very 

 expressive terms, some hints which he 

 will do well to attend to. 



"The reader will understand, that for 

 the illustration of these doctrines, the 

 scene has purposely been laid among the 

 hills in Scotland. The small enclosures, 

 and the sneaking practice, which it is not 

 very easy to restrain, after its nearer con- 

 nexion with a mid-day find has been dis- 

 covered by the pupil, of sweeping along 

 the outlines of a hedge, instead of making 

 good his regular fieldings as he ought, in 

 the first instance; and still more, the 

 obstructions and entanglements, created 

 by the green crops of a cultivated country, 

 are all against "the consummation devoutly 

 to be wished," of establishing early upon 

 the pupil that first great principle of utility 

 and beauty, an extended but regulated 

 range. Even the fair extents of open field, 

 which in the more fertile plains of the 

 south offer themselves to the sportsman. 



