xIvili INTRO DUG@ITON.

that the board would be pleafed to make fome public intimation of the miftake it had inadvertently fallen into in afcribing it to him. This the board at laft declined to do, in confequence of which this fhort{tatement of faéts is made public, inthe mean time, till

more effectual means for obtaining redrefs be adopted.

It was once intended to have noticed, among the obftructions to agriculture, in the firtt effay, the fpeculations of literary men, and the attempts of men of great wealth and property, to practife agriculture; as alfo books of agriculture, of a certain defcription: but to free thefe propofi- tions from the appearance of paradox, would have required fo many explanations, and ex- ceptions, that it was judged more expedient to

omit them entirely, They are mentioned here

muft often appear to be great and evident ob- ftruttions, may fee they were not entirely over- looked by the author.