Jelhro Tall : hi^ Li fe, Times, and Teacldnrj. 29 
Mr. Grant, and Dr. Haye." March 27 : " Sissen came to me 
this morning to teach me how to plot the angles taken tlie 
other day with the theodolite. I dressed the King/ who spoke 
much about my regiment and strongly recommended me to keep 
up its strength. . . ." April 5 : "I went to the House of 
Commons to hear the debate about Gibraltar. Letter from Mr. 
Tall." April G: "Went to Lord Halifax and had a long 
interview with him touching the affairs of Mr. Tull." April 
15: "A long conference with Mr. Tull." April 16: "A 
letter from Mr. Tull." April 17: "A visit from Mr. Tull." 
May 8 : " A letter from Mr. Tull, which I answered at once." 
May 12: "Letters from Mr. Tull." May 21 (in Scotland): 
"Visited Lord Loudon and saw his home -farm." June 7: 
" Saw Lord Stair's home-farm, Castle Kennedy, and was not 
edified." June 10 : " Long conversation with his manager on 
the method of Tull." August 31 : " Letter from Young Tull." 
October 24 : " Showed Lord Crawford my plans and the theodo- 
lite." October 30 : " At home drilling wheat (/. la Tull." 
November 7 : " Went on Sunday to see Lord Drumore's farm 
near Edinburgh, which is altogether good." November 9 : 
" Dined at a tavern with Duncan Forbes of CuUoden and 
Thomas Hope of Rankielor." November 13 : "Dined at Hope 
Park, where they showed me the new winnowing machine." 
November 22 : " Visited Lord Stair at Newliston ; my Lord 
showed me his farm before dinner, which is in very good order ; 
I did not approve of his manner of drilling." 
Half a word fixed upon or near the time and spot is worth 
a cartload of recollection. These necessarily imperfect and 
fragmentary extracts are very typical of the day, and interesting 
as showing how much amongst landowners agriculture was the 
fashion and a subject of interest ; the extracts show also that 
Tull was a man about town, and in conference, confabulation, 
and correspondence with most influential friends. And, further, 
after much persuasion, the considerations and communications 
just suggested lead up to TuU's consent — his disappointments 
notwithstanding — to publish, as originally intended, the whole 
work on Horse-Hoeing Husbandry. 
' Groom of the Bedchamber to King George II. when Prince of Wales. 
Groom of the Bedchamber to the King, and subsequently Lord of the Bed- 
chamber. 
= The day before he reviewed his old regiment, the Scots Gro3-s, and dined 
at a tavern with General Wade and his old comrades. All were well satisfied 
the one with the other. This was the famous general who made the Highland 
roads celebrated by the inscription : 
If you bad seen tliese roads 
Before tliey were made, 
Tou would hold up your hands 
To praise Geueral Wade, 
