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You were so good as to return niy visit, 

 and to report most favourably of my exer- 

 tions in the agricultural department I had 

 selected for myself; and now when informed 

 of my intention to pubhsh this Essay, you 

 kindly contributed your powerful assistance, 

 furnishing me with important topics, which 

 unfortunatel}^, came too late for me to avail 

 myself of them in this publication, already 

 gone to London ; but I shall take the liberty 

 here of making some observations upon 

 them. 



Our ideas in general coincide, and our 

 objects are the same, though our modes of 

 pursuing them may be different, and mine 

 rather novel. A variation in the measures to 

 be adopted for the attainment of the same 

 ends, may be a valuable acquisition : as where 

 change of circumstances make certain mea- 

 sures inapplicable, it must be of great im- 

 portance to have others in reserve which may 

 supply their place. 



We have, no doubt, an immense popula- 

 tion to maintain, a large portion of which 

 does not co-operate directly to their own sup- 

 port ; and we know well, that the grain im- 

 ported in the years antecedent to a late mo- 



