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“that his labours will be found to open a field of expe- “‘riment, of chemical reasoning, and of the practically “* useful, applicable to agriculture, of which that science “** had hitherto been thought incapable.” His meaning was, and it should have been so expressed,“ of which ““ that science has to too many appeared incapable:” for

persons of reflection and understanding must admit, that

chemistry, defined inthe Introduétion to this Work,“ to

** be a knowledge of the properties of bodies, and of the “effects resulting from their different combinations,” cannot but be necessary to the proper understanding and bringing to perfection, any art, science, or occupation,

wherein matter is to be operated upon.”

Attacks upon the theories and opinions of other writers have been carefully avoided, the Author’s views not being to court argument or dispute, but to convey such information as appeared to him might be useful; nor would he have departed from this line of condué in the following remarks respecting the ation of lime, had he not considered it as being conducive to the interest of

individuals, and to agriculture in general, to combat an

erroneous theory, to which many have subscribed, on

the

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