1803.) Rephy tof. L.—Queries on Lord Fife’s Improvements. O17 
and then you will arrive at a great city 
called Merde’—You fee my friend how 
forcibly he carries your imagination along 
with him in this excurfion, how he con- 
duéts you through the different. {cenes, 
making even hearing fight.” 
In all probability Longinus does not 
fuppofe that Terentianus, to whom he ad- 
drefles this treatife, ever faw the cities of 
Elepbantina or MerGe, .yet concludes it 
poflible, nay, would conclude him a 
blockhead if he had them not prefented to 
his imagination. 
(To be concluded in our next). 
a P 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ’ 
OTWITHSTANDING the letter 
of J. L. in your laft Number, I mutt 
acknowledge that the account he gave of 
Lord Somerville’s cattle-fhew, in your 
Magazine for April lat, fill appears to 
me nearly in the light it did at firft ; and, 
in fact, with regard to the cattle, 7]..: La. 
tacitly allows, by his explanation, that it 
might be fuppofed that the Devons and 
Herefords were fuperior of their kind, 
or he would not now have faid they were 
not. But let him fpeak for himfelf :— 
«< Take the example of the Devon and 
Hereford oxen contrafted with the Glamor- 
gan; t'e fame age, labour, food, and 
circumitances of every kind, produced a 
‘fuperior weight of carcafs, by probably 
full twenty ftone, in each individual of 
the former, no'withflanding a tnperiority 
of ftature in the latter. It ought to be 
obferved that thefe Glamorgans were by no 
means a favourable fample of that coun- 
try produce, being very high and long- 
legged.”’——-(See Mag. for April, p. 230.) 
Will J. L. have the.goodnefs to “ exercife 
his candour,” and fay what is the obvious 
inference from the foregoing ; and whe- 
ther, without further explanation, I was. 
not juftified in calling the comparifon un- 
fortunate, J. L. takes upon himfelf to 
fay that I acknowledge 1 know nothing 
about ftock ; furely this is not fair, when 
what I faid was this, that there were bet- 
‘ter judges than myfelf ; not that I ima- 
gine a Knowledge of ftock at all neceflary 
to be enabled to point out the fallacy. of 
his foregoing conclution. 
I mutt ftill take the liberty ‘¢ to prefend 
_to fet J. I. right” onthe fubjeét of grafs- 
feeds. As he allows that Mr. G. was 
not the firit to collect grafles, Tam, ona 
re-perufal of his firft paper, wiiling to 
grant that I was miftaken in fuppofing he 
* meant otherwile, and that ail which he did 
mean was, that Lord Somerville frft 
Montuiy Mac, No. 106. 
recommended the fubje& to Mr, G.— 
But if in feleéting J. L. alfo includes cul-. 
tivating for feed, as his firft paper implies, 
(** felected by himfelf, and the growth of 
his nurfery,””) I muft fujl beg leave to 
differ from him; for I do fuppofe J. L. 
will hardly affert the cultivation of a 
feed{man in his nurfery to be equal to the 
growth of 120 bufhels of grafs feeds in 
one feafon—-the produce of the lands of 
the perfon [ mentioned in my lait, and 
whofe annual average, fince the (ummer of 
1797, has been one hundred bufhels.—o 
Having ftated this faé&, I thail not again 
trouble you on the fubjeét, as J think IE 
can perceive that it may bring on a petu- 
lant correfpondence; which wiil only be 
taking up that roomy in your Magazine 
which will be much better filled, I tan- 
not, however, take leave of this fubject, 
without exprefling my concern to findfram 
J. L. that there is any probability of Mr. 
G.’s§ not having been tuthciently remune- 
rated for his attention to this interefting 
-and highly important undertaking ; and [ 
am afraid it will be reckoned by fome per- 
fons as no very favourable proof of the va- 
lue of the patronage of the Board of Agri- 
culture. - : 
- Tam duly fenfible of my obligation to, 
J. L. for the conciuding remark of his let. 
ter ; the juftice of it I leave to your read- 
ers. Tam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
Augufi, 1803. E, N. 
a 4 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N the narrative which appears in your 
Number for the prefent month, of the 
celebrated improvements made by that 
patriotic Nobleman, the Earl of Fife, on 
his eltate in Scotland, fome paflages ap- 
pear to me to requireexplanation. It is 
ftated that in Bamff and adjoining coun- 
ties, Lord Fife has within a few years 
Jaid out more than twelve thoufand acres 
in planting, and in the fourth fentence 
below, it is-faid, ** many of the trees are 
feven and a half feet in circumference.” 
Now, from the li:tle experience I have 
had, and the obfervations I have made, 
trees of this fize cannot be the growth of 
merely a few years, and yet poffibly the 
growth may have been rapid; but it is 
due to your readers and the public, that 
the narrator fhould ftate, in fome future 
Number, the fert of trees he fpeaks of, 
and the precife number cf years they have 
been planted in their prefent fiuation, . te- 
gether with what fubfequenk judicious 
management they have been fubjected to. 
Again, it is fsid,  on-one eltaze in 
the county of Bont, his Lo:ditip, fince 
Bf tis 
