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 as not a little singular; but the truth is, that female professors were by no means uncommon in Italy; and La Lande mentions several as having been eminent in the same university, one of whom was Professor of anatomy. (Voyage en Italie, Tom. II.) Our scanty information does not enable us to state whether Agnesi ever entered upon the active duties of the mathematical chair. Though her life was long, we can add but little in regard to her after-history. She died, according to the meagre notice contained in the Biographie Universelle, in the year 1799. Her mistaken notions of religious duty rendered the greater part of her existence but a blank to the world. She had early expressed a wish to retire into a convent, and seems to have carried this design into effect not long after the period when her great work procured for her the honours to which we have just alluded. We afterwards hear of her only as a devoted sister of the austere order of Blue Nuns, repelling the approaches of those of the learned who still desired to converse with her, and thus exhibiting another melancholy instance of the inconsistencies of our nature, and the darkening power of superstition over the brightest minds. But she lived long enough for the world to vindicate the intellectual capacities of her sex,—to show that the female mind is not only fitted for the lighter exercises of literature, but capable also of fathoming the depths, and unravelling the intricacies of abstract science. If there are any, therefore, whose speculations may have led them to more depreciating conclusions, let them, te use the words of a profound and eloquent writer already quoted in this article, “peruse the long series of demonstrations which the author of the Analytical Institutions has contrived with so much skill, and explained with such elegance and perspicuity; if they are able to do so, they will probably retract their former opinions; if unable, they will not of course see the reasons for admiring her genius that others do; but they may at least learn to think modestly of their own.” (Edinb. Rev. Vol, III. p. 410.) 

subject of this article has been so largely treated in the body of the work, that it would be equally improper and unnecessary to attempt any thing like a complete or formal treatise in this place. But as the view of agriculture there given, belongs to a time when the change from what is called the old to the new husbandry, had not yet been completed in any part of Britain; and as the progress of improvement has, of late years, been rapid and extensive beyond all former experience; it hence becomes necessary that we should here exhibit a more particular account of that important change, and of the present state of knowledge in general, in regard to the principles and practice of this, the most important of the economical arts. In doing so, it shall be our endeavour to avoid repetition; and when we touch upon any ground already examined by our predecessors, it shall only be for the purpose of adding more correct, or more useful information.

Such being the objects of this supplementary article, we hope to be able to accomplish them, by the details and observations which we shall offer under the four following chapters. In the first, we shall treat of what regards the cultivation and products of of, and the improvement of ; in the third, of agricultural ; and in the fourth, which will be of a more general kind, we shall endeavour to point out those circumstances which have more particularly contributed to the improvement of agriculture in this country, and those also which seem still to obstruct its further advancement.
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There are, besides the subjects which fall to be treated under these divisions, some others, which certainly form component parts of agricultural science, and to which it will be necessary to advert in this work; but as these subjects are not of equal interest to husbandmen generally, and as they are capable of being treated with advantage in a separate form, we shall reserve them for distinct articles, to be afterwards introduced under their respective heads. Such are the subjects of the, of , of , of, and of or.

CHAP. I.

ARABLE LAND.

We shall endeavour to arrange all the most important details connected with this first division of our subject under the eight following sections: 1. Of implements and machinery: 2. Of farm-buildings: 3. Of fences: 4. Of tillage: 5. Of fallowing: 6. Of the cultivation of the different crops: 7. Of the order of their succession: 8. Of the various substances used as manure, and the modes of applying them.

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