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in his power to forward the undertaking; and fet himfelf with alacrity to write out fuch parts of it as his’ own experience beft enabled him to do. When he had made a confiderable progrefs in

this tafk, he learnt, with concern, that he had to- tally mifunderftood the meaning of the board of agriculture, in regard to the propofed report;

and that, inftead of proceeding, as above ftated, and allowing every paper on thefe{ubjeéts to be

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{uch limitations and correétions only as the board

printed under the eve

fhould fuggeft, and he approve of,—it was in- tended that thefe papers fhould be firft circulated among a number of gentlemen, who were to be

feverally authorifed to alter, cancel, or add what-

ever they thought fit; and then the work, thus

altered, without either the kn wledge or the con- fent of the original writer, was to be publithed. No fooner was this under{tood by the author

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than he made hafte to inform the prefident of the

board, that, underftanding fuch was the propofed

plan of publication, he begged leave to decline having any hand in that work. On being prefled to give his reafons for thus declining, he candidly {tated, that as he had never written one line in his life with a view to publication, efpecially on

agricultural fubjeéts, which he could not with

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