Excerpt from The Sylvestres, Vol. 1 of 3 It is, indeed, an Arcadia, but an Arcadia of prose, and not of poetry. Everything flourishes; the pigs take to the process of fatting kindly; bullocks demolish oil-cake as if they felt themselves destined to figure in a festival of Apollo; the horses are Sleek, and gifted with a good deal of slow but de pendable understanding; the crops, Whether of corn or hay or roots, are unrivalled. The people are sturdy and contented; two or three words with them go a very long way, though mother-wit of a homely kind is not wanting. Like Suffolk dumpling this crassa Minerva can hardly be appreciated except by a native palate. 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.