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Excerpt from Pursuits of Agriculture: A Satirical Poem, in Three Cantos, With Notes My Reader is already aware that my Poem is not gravely didactic. But let him be assured, that I have strictly adhored to historical truth. Not a single topic is touched, which has not been either published with official signatures, in newspapers or otherwise, or been circulated by rumour in such general currency, and with such incidental and undesigned confirmations from authority, as to leave no doubt of general correctness, if peradventure, some slight shades of difference in unimportant particulars should exist. In short, the figures are faithfully copied, and the colouring only is my own. Truth being thus effectually secured, why may I not be allowed to laugh? At the important objects professedly aimed at by the Society, I do not, for I can not, laugh. 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.