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HE plough affords, in every civilized country, employment for almoft one ’ halfits inhabitants; and is the chief means of procuring fubfiftence for the whole. But, notwithftanding this great and ge- neral utility, and that agriculture has com- monly accompanied fcience and philofophy, the plough is an inftrument whereon theory has never condefcended to beftow the flight- eft attention.. Whether this neglect has a- rifen from the apprehended meannefs or dif- ficulty of the fubje&, or perhaps from both, I fhall not undertake to decide; but rather proceed to the more agreeable and ufeful tafk, the attempting to fupply the defeat, by an