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a perfevering obftinacy, that his own better judgment never would have allowed him to do, if he had pro- ceeded with that attentive diffidence which always ac- companies inexperience when joined with native good fenfe. So, that although books of that kind often con- tain obfervations that may be of very great utility to an experienced farmer, who is able to diftinguifh clearly between the good and the bad; yet to thofe who have moft need of inftruCtion, and who ofteneft confult fuch performances, thefe books frequently prove the fource of very capital errors: fo that it would ufually be bet- ter for fuch farmers that no fuch books had ever been

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fhe Writer of the following pages ftrongly felt the inconveniences here complained of, in the early part of ife; and would be glad if he could in any way con- tribute to prevent others from fuffering in the fame way. With this view, he has penned, at his leifure hours,. the following Effays, on fuch fubjects as have in the courfe of his practice particularly engaged his attention; and now offers. them to the Public in that native fimplicity of drefs,i..«ic.°2 thinks truth ought always to appear.

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