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A six months tour through the north of England / Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom ... Interspersed with descriptions of the seats of the nobility and gentry; and other remarkable objects.

  • Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.
Date:
1770
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Credit: A six months tour through the north of England / Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom ... Interspersed with descriptions of the seats of the nobility and gentry; and other remarkable objects. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pete -] their experiments and obfervations ; fome would probably confent to their publica- tion. Porrricat ARITHMETIC might reap great benefit ; for moft of the points that form the foundation of national cal- culations would receive a light they never yet had;——the proportion of cultivated and uncultivated land ;—the rental ;—the value of the foil ;——the amount of {tock ; —the annual expenditure in hufbandry ;— the ftate.of population, dependant on agri- culture ;—thefe, and many other points of equal importance, would afford to politi- cians much better grounds for their variety of difputes, than fome they at prefent ufe: But it 1s here requifite to explain or apo- logize for one or two circumftances con- cerning this Tour, that may not be fo clear as they ought. In the firft place, I have been afked more than once, whether I did not think it a little too much, topretend to inftruct others in hufbandry, before I had convinced the world of having practifed it myfelf ;——~ no work that I had yet publifhed difplay- ing any matters of experience? Now, as this queftion may arife in the minds of many of my readers, I think it neceffary to lhint,. that, {mall as my experience 1s, yet I a 4 have