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AGRICULTURE. 25

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Of Commons, as an Obftruction to Agriculture.

aE: commonable lands be complained of as a

grievance, commons mutt juftly be accounted an evil of ftill greater magnitude: and this alfo is

experienced to an aftonifhing extent in every

county in England. Among the diftinguifhing charateriftics of man, the moft peculiar is the faculty of obfervation, that has been conferred upon him by the beneficent Creator of the uni- yerfe. By means of this faculty, he is enabled to compare together faéts that fall under his ob- fervation, to reafon upon thefe, and to draw con- clufions from them thatt end toaccommodate him- felf. Itis by this means he has been able to dif cover, that a foil which in its natural ftate, is per- haps incapable of producing almoft any of thofe things that are neceflary for his fubfiftence, may be fo managed as to be made to yield abun- dance of the moft delicate produéts of the earth: nor is it poffible to fet any limits to the encreafed fertility that a continued induftry, under the gwi-

dance of reafon, may confer upon even the moft