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commonly philofophical turn of mind, and cultivated un- derftanding, to be able to felect w ith judgment fuch lead- acts as might ferve as a balfis to an infant theory, or to make fuch experiments as might be decifive in this point of view, he wifhes to turn the attention of the practical farmer altogether from thefe vain purfuits, and to perfuade him to be contented with viewing it as an economical art, on the proper knowledge of which, as fuch, his profperity and happinefs depend. Happy will

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seaving, therefore, the philofopher* to purfue his fublime fpeculations, and proceeding in the more humble walk to which he had confined himfe lf, it readily occurred, that as thofe who practife Agriculture are ufually con- fined to a particular fpot, their obfervations muft necef- farily be confined to thofe few objects that come within their own narrow fphere. And as their attention is ufually employed in cultivati ng fuch plants, or rearing:

fuch animals, or profec cuting fuch a mode of culture as

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