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Agricultural Surveys.

By the PRESIDENT of the BoaRD of AGRICULTURE,

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BOARD eſtabliſhed for the purpoſe of making

every eſſential enquiry into the Agricultural State, and the means of promoting the Intertial Improve- ment of a powerful Empire, will neceſlarily have it in view to examine the ſources of public proſperity, in re- gard to various important particulars, Perhaps the fol- lowing is the moſt natural order for carrying on fuch

important inveſtigations; namely, to aſcertain,

1. The riches to be obtained from the ſurface of the national territory;

2. The mineral, or ſubterraneous treaſures, of which the country is poſſeſſed;

3. The wealth to be derived from its ſtreams, rivers, canals, inland navigations, coaſts, and fiſheries; and,

4. The means of promoting the Improvement of the people, in regard to their health, induſtry, and morals, founded on a flatiſiical ſurvey, or a mi- nute and careful enguiry into the aQual ſtate of every parochial diſtri in the kingdom, and the circumítances of its inhabitants.

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

importance that can tend to promote the general hap-

pineſs of a great nation, ſeems to be included, ATA

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