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of energy. Among other intelligent individuals nominated for that purpoſe, Mr. Holt, of Walton, near Liverpool, was ap- pointed to take a ſurvey of the county of Lancaſter.‘Thoſe who have had an opportunity of examining his original Report, will ſee the pains which‘he took to fulfil the obje&s of his miſion. As ſoon as his Report was printed, it was circulated throughout the county, for the purpoſe of obtaining additional information z5' and though, from the want of the privilege of ſending ând receiving packets duty-free,(a privilege which, it is hoped, the Board will ſoon obtain, forthe want of it impedes all its operations) the circulation of the Report was attended with conſiderable difficulty and expence; yet, on the whole, ſuch 2 number of copies were réturned, with valuable additional ob- ſervVations, as to induce the Board to forman opinion, that the work might now be rendered fit‘for publication;‘and that it would be deſirable to take the ſenſe of the Public reſpeing the beſt mode óf communicating the information which it had thus accumulated,‘by re-printing the corre&ed accounts of'two counties, namely, Norfolk‘on‘the Eaſtern, and Lancaſhire on the Weſtern coaſt of the iſland.

There is every‘reaſon to beliève, that the accounts of the other diſtri&Æs‘in the kingdóm will ſoon be equally coniplete 5 in which caſe, a greater maſs of agricultural knowledge will be colle&ted, in a ſpáce of little more than two years, than probably can be found in all preceding publications on the ſubje& of huſbandry; and thus the foundation will be laid for à géneral ſyſtem of improvement, on thät beſt and ſureſt of all foun= dations, a knowledge of fas,

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