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brought forward, which could not otherwife

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have been adopted; becaufe the obftructions, which reprefs alike the fuggeftions of genius, and the hand of induftry, would have remained unknown, as they hitherto have been in every European nation, and, of courfe, entirely unat- tended to by thofe claffes of men who alone have power to remove them,

I could not produce a more ftriking illuftra- fon of the truth of thefe affertions, than the Eflay Whigh I am now about to fubmit to public confideration; for it will confift of little more than a comprefled view of faéts that have been brought to light by the agricultural furveys of the feveral counties already printed, fome of which faéts were unknown, or never adverted to, by every perfon who{hall read this: for I prefume no one perfon in any fituation in Britain, could have otherwife had an opportunity of obferving the whole; and innumerable perfons no doubt exift, who are deeply interefted in the difcuffion,.' who never before had adverted to one of them: and who, of courfe, could never be aware of the very important confequences that flow from them,

By a careful attention to thefe furveys, the prin- eipal obftruCtions to agriculture,(not to dwell on

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