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General view of the agriculture of the county of Somerset : with observations on the means of its improvement. Drawn up in the year 1795, for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By John Billingsley, Esq; ... and now re-printed with considerable additions and amendments, .. / John Billingsley
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| AGRICULTURAL SURVEYS.

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OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

BOARD eſtabliſhed for the purpoſe of making every |- eflential enguiry, into the Agricultural State, and the means of promoting, the internal improvement of a powerful Empire, will neceſſarily have it in view, to examine the ſources of publick proſperity, in regard to various import- | ant particulars. Perhaps the following is the moſt natura] | order for carrying on ſuch important inveſtigations; namely, to aſcertain, 1. The riches to be obtained from the ſurface of the na- | tional territory. | 2. The mineral or ſubterraneous treaſures of which the | country is poſſeſſed. A, 3: The wealth to be derived from its ſtreams, rivers, ca- nals, inland navigations, coafts, and fiſheries. And, 4. The means of promoting the improvement of the people in regard to their health, induſtry, and morals, founded on a fatiflical ſurvey, or a minute and care- ful enquiry into the aQual ſtate of every parochial difirict in the kingdom, and the circumſtances of its

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