4 xü PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. kingdom known to its inhabitants, and to point out the benefit which they may derive from improving it. Such are the objedts of theſe inguiries; which, ſo far as they concern the county of Lancaſter, ſcem to have made very conſiderable progreſs, al- though in ſome particulars they have not réached that degree of perfe&tion that would be ſo truly deſirable; but which proba- bly will yet be attained, even previous to the concluſion of the

2 preſent century, when the Statiſtical Account of Great Britain, that moſt important of all the labours which the Board of

Agriculture can undertake, is completed,

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