A six weeks tour, through the southern counties of England and Wales. Describing, particularly, I. The present state of agriculture and manufactures. II. The different Methods of cultivating the Soil. III. The Success attending some late Experiments on various Grasses, &c. IV. The Prices of Labour and Provisions. V. The state of the working poor in those Counties, wherein the Riots were most remarkable. With descriptions and copper-plates, of such newly invented Implements of Husbandry as deserve to be generally known: Interspersed With Accounts of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and other Objects worthy of Notice. In Several Letters to a Friend. By the author of the farmer's letters.
- Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.
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- MDCCLXIX. [1769]
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London : printed for W. Strahan; W. Nicoll, No 51 in St. Paul's Church-Yard; B. Collins at Salisbury; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh, MDCCLXIX. [1769]
Physical description
xi,[1],377,[17]p.,plates : ill. ; 80.
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Edition
The second edition, corrected and enlarged.
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ESTC T139688
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