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• PREFACE,

he is indebted to Mr. Salisbury, the able successor toMr. Curtis at the Botanic Garden, Brompton. For cor-rect drawings of several breeds of cattle and sheep, he isobliged to Mr. Garrard and Mr. Scott. And the diffe-rent laws and regulations which relate to agriculture havebeen carefully selected and digested into order, by Mr.Thomas Walter Williams, an able and intelligent bar-

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rister.

From the great attention that has been bestowed in cor-recting and improving the figures in the plates of imple-ments and agricultural machinery, it is hoped they willbe found well adapted to the views of the practical farmer,and will bring him more fully acquainted with the im-proved means of cultivation.

In regard to arrangement, the Author has pursued thatwhich seemed to proceed from the nature of the subject,without any regard to what has been done by others; hisgreat object being to present to the agricultor, in as narrowa compass as possible, a complete and connected system ofhusbandry.

October 18, 1804.