Excerpt from View of the Agriculture of Middlesex: With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement, and Several Essays on Agriculture in General, Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture, and Internal Improvement It will readily be admitted, on a moment's re. Fiedtion, that the more highly any country is cultivated, and the nearer it approaches to per-a faction in its rural concerns, the greater will be its increase of population, and of course, its strength and consequence in the scale of nations. This consideration points out to the Government of atry, the sound policy, and true Wiso dom, of giving all possible encouragement and assistance to a Spirit of industry and exertion, among the best part of its population, the healthy sons of agriculture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.