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PRELIMINARY OBSERVÁTIONS TO THE

LANCASHIRE RE-PRINTED REPORT.

N the courſe of an addreſs to the Board of Agricultures

when it firſt aſſembled, on the 4th of September 1793, L took an opportunity of ſtating the meaſures which ſcemed to me thé moſt likely to promote the objects of that inſtitution 5 and ſubmitted-to the conſideration of the Board, whether the firſt obje& ought not to be, to aſcertain facts, without which no theory or ſyſtem of reaſoning, however plauſible, could be depended on; that for attaining ſo important an object, it would be neceflary to examine into the agricultural ſtate of all the different counties in the kingdom, and to enquire into the means, which, in the opinien of intelligent men, were the moſt likely to promote either a general ſyſtem of improvement, or

the advantage of particular diftri&s; that by employing 2

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number of able men for that purpoſe, by circulating their re-

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ports prévious to their being publiſhed, and by regueſting the

additional remarks and obſervations of thoſe.to whom ſuch

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communications were ſeht, it was probable that no important

fait, or even uſeful idea, would eſcape notices The plan thus chalked out having been approved of by the

Board, it was immediately ſet about with every poſſible degree © oí