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dertake to value and let land in any situation , 
and in any quantity. Men to whom, from 
their habits of life, you ought to pay no at- 
tention, in concerns of so much general, as 
well as private importance. 
Your Lordship's good sense ~wllh readily 
admit that the qualifications for the office of 
a general Valuer of estates, and a Commis- 
sioner upon inclosures, can only be found in 
' men well versed in the praclical husbandry 
of the most improved counties, as a stock on 
which subsequent observation and general 
experience in the management of landed 
property should be grafted. 
We presume that this subjecl demands the 
most serious consideration of the Board. We 
recollect; your Lordship's address to the 
Board, dated 8th of May, i798, and the 
pledge you therein gave to the public, that 
you would endeavour to stop further profuse 
publications on husbandry, 'and most parti- 
cularly county reports, for a considerable 
length of time. Nevertheless, in the next 
year appeared the publication of your Secre- 
