Address of Thomas Gold, Esq

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Excerpt from Address of Thomas Gold, Esq.: Delivered Before the Berkshire Association, for the Promotion of Agriculture and Manufactures, at Pittsfield, Oct. 3d, 1816The course prescribed to myself, excites a dihidence for its execution, and I shal ll repose much on the indul gence ofmyrespectedaudience. The short time since it has been my duty to address you, together with al most cons ant professional engagements, justly awa ten solicitude, and will deprive iiiy hearers of much of that entertainment which they have a right to ex p ect. This Society had its origin in the praise worthy project of Improving the condition of agriculture, and awakening our fellow citizens to exertions for prose cuting manufactures. 'lhe agriculture of the conne Ity had become stationary, and the Spirit of Improv e Inent nearly extinct. Few inducements remained to pherish enterprize, or occupy industry and talents The spirit of emigration was every where III activity and the census of the county painfullya admonished us, that a too general disposition prevailed of seeking III in ms in the II estern region of our country. It was at this crisis the Society commenced the novel and interesting expeoiiment, of exciting the people of the county to examine their situations, to explore the re sources oi their soils, and to commence improve rnents th iit ensured success and profit.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.