The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library N022062 S. H. = Samuel Hayes. The titlepage is engraved. With a final advertisement leaf. Dublin: printed by Wm. Sleater; and sold by Allen & West, London, 1794. ix, [3],189, [3]p., plates.: ill.; 8°

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 edition. Excerpt: ...such regulations were wanting is a melancholy truth, too evident to every person who travels through this kingdom, and consequently sees what tracts of wood have been laid waste by tenants for life of all descriptions, who so far from leaving reserves, are seldom at the pains even of fencing up the young coppice, for the advantage of their successors.--Amongst many other instances, I am sorry, I am obliged to state, that I have been eye-witnesses to the fall of nearly two hundred acres of beautiful well growing oak, in a romantic valley, on the fee lands of To be enabled to pursue this excellent method, the utmost care mould be observed in felling coppices in such a manner, as may ensure of Glandclough in the county of Wicklow, three times within the space of twenty-four years--the produce of each sale to the several Archbishops never exceeded one hundred pounds, and as I am informed, amounted once only to fifty pounds, or five shillings per acre for a coppice, which had it only been preserved for the same number of years, though not containing a single reserve of a former growth, would have produced thirty pounds per acre at the lowest valuation, or fix thousand pounds in placeoi fifty. I am far from wishing that any individual or body of men, and least of all at this time, that the church should be deprived of the smallest portion of their rights and property, but I am certain, that means might be devised to remedy this evil, without any such consequence: the value of those woods, which belong to tenants for life, corporate bodies, &c. and such as are not fit for a general fall, might be taken at fiated periods, and the amount of the whole, or such reserves as shall be required to stand, together with interest from that time, ..

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