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ports of the different counties. I may observe however, upon 

 the whole, that the husbandry of Northumberland and Ber- 

 wickshire is the most extensively useful, and that the best bailiffs 

 are commonly obtained from those countries. They have, in 

 general, acquired such an education and habit of observation 

 as, besides enabling them to transplant their own practices, 

 renders them capable of improving upon that of the country 

 in which they may be called upon to employ their talents. 



