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were not wholly loft to the country he was fo anxious to enliven and to enrich by in-duftry. Thefe eftabliftiments naturally recall to mind what the Marquis de Mirabeau ,in his book De l’Ami des Homme relates of the Duke de la Rochefoucauld, the grand-father of Monf. de Liancourr, having, in 1754, made a facrifice of one of the fineftorangeries in France, and part of his park, to the inhabitants of his eftate at Verteuil ,in Angoumois , for the purpofe of planting mulberry-trees, and railing of fdk-worms,the cultivation of which was at that timeicarcely known at Verteuil . This benevolentman had, before his death, the confolation of feeing many good intentions crowned withfuccefs; Monf. de Liancourt, on the contrary, has the fenfible mortification of feeingthe good he intended to do, and which he had fo happily begun, deftroyed by thofevery people for whom it was undertaken ; and who, by a fatal error, in thinking tohurt him, whofe foie endeavours tended to their advantage, have hurt themfelves, bydeftroying an eftablilhment that would have been a germ of national profperity, andwas unique in France .

The deftru&ion brought upon fuch eftabliftiments, by revolutionary anarchy, is one,among a thoufand leffons that teach the danger, to the deareft interefts of the people,flowing from popular commotions. Little more remains of thefe agricultural eftablilh-ments, than the merit of having made them, a fource of heart-felt latisfadfion to a worthyand patriotic individual. That he may be fpeedily reinftated in a property, which helived only to improve and to adorn, is the fincere wifh of that gratitude and friendfhipwhich pens this faint acknowledgment of merit.

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Notes on the Agriculture of Lombardy.

ONE of the moft interefting countries in Europe , for the practice of various branchesof rural ceconomy, merits a much clofer and more minute detail than is poflible fora traveller to give, who from the nature of his purfuit can do no more than retain afew of the principal features, to point out thofe circumftances which demand the moftftudious attention: fome of thefe are fo valuable, that years would not be milpent inacquiring a complete knowledge of them. On every fubjedf, except what refpedtsdiredtly practical hulbandry, the final I number of my inquiries is of lefs confequence,while the pen is in the hand of my elleemed friend, Mr. Profeffor Symonds, whofe ele-gant memoirs upon Italian agriculture* are fraught with information of unqueftionableutility. I {hall arrange the minutes I made in Lombardy under four heads, which willinclude all that I think worthy of the reader’s confideration.

I. General circumftances of the hulbandry.

II. The management of grafs lands.

III. The management of arable lands.

IV. The encouragement or depreffion which agriculture receives from various caufes.-

* Inferted in the Annals of Agriculture.

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