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Under one or other of theſe heads, every point of real impor- 4 M tance, that can tend to promote the general bappineſs of a great Y e nation, ſcems to be iaclutled,| 1;

Inveſtigations of ſo extenſive and fo complicated a nature, j I muſt require, it is evident, a conſiderable ſpace of time before Pp they can be completed. Differing indeed in many reſpects/ M from each other, it is better perhaps that they ſgould be under=|| taken at diferent periods, and ſeparately conſidered. Under| that impreſkon, the Board of Agriculture has hitherto directed| A its attention tó the firſt point only, namely the cultivation of(E: the ſurface, and the reſources to be derived from it.|;

' That the fis eſſential for ſuch an inveſtigation, might be E

colleRed with more celerity and advantage, a number of intel-|

ligent and reſpectable individuals were appointed, to furniſh the| "|

Board with accounts of the fate of huſbandry, and the means| n | nd fhu

of improving the different difßriés of the kingdom. The re-- hure turns they ſent were printed, and circulated by every means the D Board of Agriculture could deviſe, in the diſtri&s to which they SI reſpeively related; and in conſequence of that circulation, a great maſs of additional valuable information has been ob- i tained. For the purpoſe of cominunicating that information E tó the Public in general, but more eſpecially to thoſe counties H| the moſt intereſted therein, the Board has reſolved to re- print E, the Survey of each County, as ſoon as it ſeemed to be ht for Ps: publication; and among ſeveral equally advanced, the counties| E of Norfolk and Lancaſter-were- pitched upon for the com-| Ï mencement of the propoſed publication;z it being thought moſt| 4 adviſable, to begin with one county on the Eaſtern, and an- E. 101,

veys ſhall have been thus re-printed it will be attended with little / P 2

/ i| other on the Weſtern coaft of the iſland, When all theſe Sur-| difficulty to draw up an abſtract of the whole(which will not|

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