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INTRODUCTION. 



copy, which was presented to the Society by M. Du Hamel on its first 

 publication. 



The other quotations are from a translation of Marcandier's Treatise 

 on Hemp, octavo, 1764. 



Chambers's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, by Dr. Rees. 

 The Encyclopaedia Britannica. 



A tract called England's Improvement, and seasonable Advice to 

 Gentlemen Farmers, &c. how to cultivate Hemp and Flax, octavo, 1691. 



An Essay on the European Method of cultivating and managing 

 Hemp and Flax, by George Sinclair, Esq. Edinburgh, 1797. 



A Manuscript Statement of the Mode of cultivating Hemp and Flax 

 in Russia, Prussia, and Poland, by James Durno, Esq. the British Consul 

 at Memel. 



The Mode of cultivating and dressing Hemp, by the Abbe Brulles, 

 printed by order of the Lords of the Committee of Council for Trade and 

 Foreign Plantations, quarto, 1790. 



Mills's Practical Husbandry, 5 vols, octavo, 1792- 



The Complete English Farmer, 8vo», 1771 ; and quarto edition, 1807. 



An Essay on Hemp and Flax, by A. M'Donald, Surveyor, and 

 Raiser and Dresser of Flax, octavo, Edinburgh, 1784. 



Instructions for the Culture and Preparation of Hemp in Canada, in 

 a Letter to the Lords of his Majesty's Council for Trade and Foreign 

 Plantations, dated 17th of June, 1802, by John Taylor, Esq. 



The Agricultural Reports of the Counties of Suffolk and Lincoln, 

 &c. published by the Board of Agriculture in 1797 and 1799. 



The various particulars of information selected from these authorities 

 I have digested and arranged under separate heads ; by which it will be 

 readily seen, wherein they accord or differ in the modes they have recom- 

 mended. 



