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Chap. XVI. Obstacles to Improvement ; including 

 General Observations on Agricultural Legisla- 

 tion and Police. 



Chap. XVII. Miscellaneous Observations, 



Sect. i. Agricultural Societies. 



2. Weights and Measures. 



3. Supply of London. 



4. Experimental Farm. 



CoMCLUSioN. Means of Improvement , and tfus 

 Measures calculated for that Purpose, 



Appendix. 



Perfection in such inquiries is not In the power of 

 any body of men to obtain at once, whatever may be the 

 extent of their views or the vigour of their exertions. If 

 I.ouis XIV. eager to have his kingdom known, and pos- 

 sessed of boundless power to efFefl it, failed so much in 

 the attempt, that of all the provinces in his kingdom, only 

 one was so described as to secure the approbation of pos- 

 terity *, it will not be thouglit strange that a Board, pos- 

 sessed 



* See Volt A I r e's Age of Lours XIV. vol. ii. p. 127, 128, edit. 1752. 



The following extradt from that work will explain the circumstance above 

 alluded to : 



" l>ou I s had no Colbert, nor Lou voi s, when, about the year 1698, 

 for the instrudtion of the Duke of Burgundy, he ordered each of the in- 

 tendants to draw up a particular description of his jirov'nce. By this means 

 an exa(fl account of the kingdom might have been obtained, and a just enu- 

 meration ol the inhabitants. It was an useful work, though all the intendant* 

 had not the capacity and attention of Monsieur De Lamoi c NON De Ba- 

 vttts. Had what th« King dij-efted been as well executed, in regard to 



every 



