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Under one or other of theſe heads, every point of real

importance, that can tend to promote the general happineſs óf a great nation, ſeems to be included.

s of‘ſo extenúive and ſo complicated a nature

muſt reguire, it 18 ev ident, a conſiderable ſpace of time before

they can be completed. Differing indeed in many reſpects from each other, it is E R that they ſhould be undertaken at different periods, and ſeparately confi Idered Under that impreſſion, the Bo— of Agriculture has hitherto direâted its attention to the firſt point only, namely, the

cultivation of the ſurface, and the reſources to be derived from it. That the fas eſſential for ſuch an inveſtigation might be

11 ch> I, SES GR R= SS colleRed with more celerity and advantage, a number of 1n- telligent an e reſpeétable inc Sividuals were appointed, to furniſh D<: 2 1 4 the Board with accounts of the fate of huſbandry, Andithe

{ ImnNraui a difforent diſtrié}g> E] means of improving the E diſtriits of the kingdom. ] E“in y ronl-

hey ſent were printec|, and circulated by eve

C Ni ER A j- A means the Board of Agriculture could deviſe, in the GA

to which they reſpe@ively related; and in conſequence of that circulation, a great maſs of additional valuable informa-

tion has been obtained. For the purpoſe of communicating that information to the publick in general, but more eſpe- cially to thoſe counties the molt intereſted therein, the Board has reſolved to reprint the Survey of each County, as ſoon

4s it ſeemed to be fit for publication; and among ſeveral equally advanced, the counties of Norfolk and Lancaſter were pitched upon for the commencement of the propoſed publication; it being thought moſt adviſable to begin with one county on the Eaſtern, and another on the Weſtern coaſt of the Iſland. When all theſe Surveys ſhall have been thus re-printed, it will be attended. with little difficulty to draw up an abſtrad of the whole(which will not probably

exceed