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Inveſtigations of ſo extenſive and ſo complicated a na=- ture, muſt require, it is evident, a confiderable ſpace of time before thcy can be completed. Diíleiing indeed in many reſpects from each other, it is better E that they ſhould be undertaken at diferent periods. and ſe= parately confidered. Under that 1mpreihon, the Board of Agriculture has hitherto direQed 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 inveſtigaticn might

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ce, a number of intelligent and reſpe@able individuals were appointed to furniſh the Board with accounts of the ſtate bf huf- bandry, and the means of improving the diÆerent diſ- triés of the kingdom. The returns they ſent were printed, and circulated by every means the— of Agriculture could deviſe, in the diſtri&s to whic hey reſpedively related; and, in conſequence of that cir- culation, a great maſs of additional valuable information has been obtained. For the purpoſe of commul nicating that information to the; public in general, but more eſ- pecially to thoſe E the moſt intereſted therein, the Board has reſolved to reprint the Survey of each County, as ſoon as it ſeemed to be fit for publication; and among ſeveral equally advanced, the counties of Norfolk k‘and Lancaſter were pitched upon for the commencement of

the propoſed publication; it bein ng thought moſt adyiſe-

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able to begin with one county on the eaſtern, and ano- ther on the weſtern coaſt of the iſland. When al] theſe Surveys ſhall have been thus reprinted, it will be at- tended with little difcu 1lty to draw up an abfſtradQ of the whole(which will not N exceed two or three volumes quarto) to be laid before His M ajefſty and both Houſes of Parliament; and after wards, a general Report

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