Pema re cS Ay GO Ob: X!

e met with in different parts of the earth, or knowing the cafes in which others might be fubftituted inftcad of them, with advantage; they are, ina great many cafes, ig- norant of what might be done for their own emolument, nor know they how tomake the greateft advantage of their own particular fituation:—fo that, not being fenfible of their real wants, they remain contented with what they only know in part, without making thofe efforts, which, if properly direted, muft naturally tend very much to

improve that art which they practife.

In thefe circumftances, he imagined that nothing could promife to be of more real utility to the practical farmer, than a work that-was calculated to prefent to him a concife view of all thofe objects that fhould have a claim to his attention, when he was fo circumftanced as to have any particular object of purfuit in view; that, by thus having a diftin¢ét knowledge of all the circum- ftances that could affect him, he might be in no danger of overlooking any of them. He would thus be en- abled to advance with fome degree of certainty, in- ftead of purfuing that devious and defultory courfe, to

which