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Pek BEA CE:

HE following EssAy is a very inconfiderable

fragment of a niuch larger work, in which the Author had made but a{mall progrefs, when the event mentioned in the introductory advertifement, put a ftop to the farther profecution of it. And as it is poffible he may never be in a fituation which fhall enable him to finifh that work as he at firft intended, he has been prevailed upon to offer it to the Public in its prefent

imperfect ftate,—hoping, that even in this impesfect Pp’ ping P

ftate, it may be of fome ufe in directing the attention of Z ee an future enquirers to proper objects.——To contribute

farther towards that end, the following account is given of the Author’s defign, and the motives that induced him to engage in this undertaking.

From particular circumfances, nowife interefting to

the Reader, he was neceffarily engaged in the practice

Asriculture, at a very early period of life; and

which that mode of life prefented to an ingenuous

a3 mind,