NIFRODUGTION. xxii prefident of the board of agriculture demean himfelf fo far as to give countenance to fuch tranf- attions!!!—I will not fuppofe that fuch can be the cafe.- Yet appearances are againit you—In- advertence may have led you'to adopt a language that is fairly fufceptible of that interpretation; and you_cannot take, too early an opportunity of doing it away.|

It will be the eafieft thing imaginable for Sir John Sinclair to clear himfelf from oe charge, and fettle the matter,—fimply by pul lifhing the principles on which Mr. Elk kington’s ee of draining is founded. This can be attende with little trouble:—For as Sir John mut fully underftand the principle himfelf,(otherwife it would be an infult-to fuppofe he could have ufed a language fo ftrong and decifive as he has done) —he can find little difficulty in explaining it, a a fupplement to one of thofe publications that are every day iffuing from the prefs, at the ex- pence of the board of agriculture.

Such a publication j is likewife neceffary on Mr. Elkington’s account, if he means to free himfelf

&from the imputation of quackery; which idea,

the manner in which he has been introduced- public notice by the board of agriculture, has a

ftrong tendency to countenafice. This ought to VOL. Tir. C