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been attainable with more extenſive powers. The candid Reader cannot expe in theſe Reports more than a certain portion of uſeful information, ſo arranged as to render them a bafis for further and more detailed enguiries. The atten- tion of the intelligent Cultivators of the kingdom, however, will doubtleſs be excited, and the minds of men in general gradually brought to conſider favourably of an undertaking, which will enable all to contribute to the national ſtores of knowledge, upon topicks ſo truly intereſting as thoſe which concern the Agricultural intereſts of their country; intereſts, which on juft principles never can be improved, until the preſent ſtate of the kingdom be fully known, and the means of its future improvement aſcertained with minuteneſs and accuracy.
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