Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. He has sought to instruct his readers by general principles and directions rather than by extended details, believing that the good sense of those for whom he writes will readily and understandingly apply them, with or without modifications, as the circumstances of soil, season, or latitude may require. With much less labor he might have made a book twice as large, and not half as intelligible.
