PREFACE.

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days twelfth Volume is here preSented to the Public, of a Work which owes no common obligations to ts favor. 10 his Subscribers and Contributors(among whom he is kuppy to rclude Such a respectable number of Scientiſic and profesSional Men) the Conductor is deSirous to eaxpress his grateful acknowledgments; and to acquaint them. that he looks furward to more legitimate claims on their pa- tronage--their assiStance, and regard.

To attract the fixed attention of a large and dispersed body of men, like that of the 4gricultural Interest of the Country,(380 necessary to that concentration of iwention and intelligence, which is the primary object of this work) is not the operation of a moment, but the patient attain» ment of years, Subject to various contingencies, and liable to constant interruption. Yet zt will be perceivable, by a reference to the following pages, that much has been done, although much remains to be effected. An zmporlant cor- respondence has been opened with the Northern part of the Kingdom, which has extended even to North Britain; an intelligent communication is established with the Laustern and the Western counties; and a Similar connection 15 commeneing with the Southern; it remains to extend and improve these advantages, which can only be done by a con- finance and increase of that liberal Sunction, and friendly attention, whieh has been accorded to the volumes Just completed of tlus growing and interesting miscellany,

The Conductor claims to himse/f no other merit in the Publication, for which he Solicits Support, than its forma- ton and care; an indifference to expence in the attainment of ats objects; und a perseverance, not to be Subdu?d, in en- Weavoring to extend its communication and utility. To a ra- tional Public he owes the execution; und to the protection