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tary's * General View of the Agriculture of 
the County of Lincoln/ ^55 pages, price 
nine shillings in boards. 
Whether your Lordship and the Board 
expe6ied to obtain fair and impartial state- 
ments, in order tcrimprove tlie agriculture 
of that county by the subject matter it 9011- 
tains, or to relieve the impaired state of its 
fund, by the sale of the book, we venture to 
presume that in every view you have equally 
tailed ; the public opinion has long been 
decided upon the agricultural abilities of the 
author, and though he was entertained with 
civility by some of the resident agricultural 
amateurs of that county, his suggestions and 
opinions were generally received 'with as 
much distrust as if they had issued from one 
of the unfortunate residents with the eminent 
Do6for '^ at Creatford. We have seen a pre- 
vious publication on this subject, published 
by the authority of the Board in 1794 , from 
the reports of Mr. Stone ; and theugh we 
* Dr, Willis. 
