THE YEARS 1776, 1777, and 1778. AND Nobis in arto & inglorius labor.TACIT. BY ARTHUR YOUNG, Esq. F. R. S. Honorary Member of the Societies of DUBLIN, YORK and MANCHESTER PREFACE. NUMEROUS as on UMEROUS as the publications on huf bandry have become in almost every part of Europe, few of them let us into its actual ftate in any country. Authors feem to have difdained recording the practice, so much have they been employed in prefcribing alterations. Several reasons may be affigned for this omiffion to defcribe the agriculture of a province, it is neceffary to travel into it, and among the writers who have been moft voluminous upon this fubject, the greater number have been confined to their own farms,-perhaps to their fire fides. It was impoffible for them to have given detailed defcriptions of what they had never seen. THERE is alfo a greater temptation to the production of fuch didactic works as are most ufual in agriculture, than to the lefs entertaining minutiæ of common management. The man who composes a piece for inftructing others how to conduct their lands, generally includes all forts of foils, fituations, and cirumstances; his views are great, his work comprehenfive, round, and complete, and every reader finds fomething that fuits him. The fuccefs which has attended the complete bodies, general treatises, VOL. I. a and |