20 PROPOSALS FOR

be firm, and the outlines justly drawn, Study and perseverance will supply the rest,

On dividing the kingdom into agri- cultural departments, and viewing the various circumstances, which will ope- rate on the establishment in view, there appears to be only one situation, in which it can with strict propriety be placed. This is near the center of three given points;—the metropolis, and the two universities. For this situation will not only bring it within a moderate distance (a day’s journey) from each of these places; but will also bring it sufficiently near the center of the six departments,| that, in the event of provincial schools being hereafter established, the metro- politan institution will most readily com- municate with them, and render complete the organic system which has been men- tioned.

It so happens, however, that the cen-

tral point of these places falls ina passage