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cllscoyerles, modes of pradice which have 
been adopted for a great length of time; 
with crude speculations upon subjedfs of 
secondary importance, without any adlual 
benefit likely to arise from the result. It is 
what, in the language of Booksellers, is com- 
monly called ‘ Bookmaking! 
We conceive that a great national institu- 
tion would have deserved well of the country 
had it first employed itself with industry and 
care to selecf and call forth all the talents in 
the united kingdoms to assist in compre- 
hending and discriminating the primary ob- 
je^fs to which its attention should have been 
first diredied ; and the most successful means 
to have been employed in carrying well di- 
gested plans of agricultural improvement 
into effedf, reje6ting the consideration of alf 
party views, calling forth genius, united with 
'experience, wherever found, whether its dawn 
commenced on this or on that side of the 
Tweed. It might then repose upon the dig- 
nity of its own chara6ler, the re6fitude of 
‘its condu61: and of its operatiofis, laying aside 
