xvi INTRODUCTION.

fis ; re one A that Appiti0n made to the fecond edition of this volume of the effays,|| : or 00 “pril, 1798., wntte ¥6:?, fan Since the former edition of this volume was printed, a publi-

cation by the board of agriculture has appeared, faid to contain an explanation of the principles of Mr. Elkington’s mode of draining, which is inferted in the frit volume(page 20) of the ite 4th edition of thefe

reader is referred.

eflays, with remarks upon it, to which the oo

Dr. Axperson thinks himfelf fingularly unfortunate in hay- ye

ing occafion to complain of fuch repeated ads of injufyice done to him by Sir John Sinclair. He fhould not, however, have troubled the public in confequence of this injury he is now about bi to ftate, had it refpected himfelf alone; but as it tends to affeé

the memory of a man to whom he lies

under the greate(t obliga.| tions, and for whofe memory he bears the moft refpeéful venera- tion, no confideration whatever can prevail with him to become as it were a filent accomplice to a deed which tends to wound his. reputation in the moft infidious manner.

Thefe confiderations induced him to publith the following ady

ertifement in the Morn- ing Chronicle, for March 25th 1797; to which he has not as yet feen any anfwer,

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4(0 He now reprints it, to give it the greater de-

gree of publicity, till he fhould more deliberately determine what:

farther fteps will be neceflary compleatly to effe& the purpofe of‘

refcuing the memory of Dr. Cullen from the injury it has thus at fuftained.

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ADVERTISEMENT.‘

“* We are authorifed by Dr. Anderfon,‘to inform the public, Doa

that a paper which has been printed and circulated by the board MN

of agriculture, purporting to be written by the late Dr. Cullen, of i