i8oo. V'lenx) of the Agriculture of TorlJImes 20 1 



and they would do well to take it under their Immediate 

 and ferious confideration. 



The fubje^t of this general view, the Weft Riding of 

 Yorkfhire, is a diltri£l of very confiderable importance. 

 ' Though but a frithing, or third part of a county, it may 

 vie with many of the moft tlourifliing counties in the 

 kingdorh, in . wealth and population, and in induilry, 

 rural and mechanical. Its foil, though various, is ren- 

 dered generally produ£tive ; yet there is much room for 

 improvement, the natural means of which it eminently 

 poirelTes within its own limits -, lime, Sec. for manures ; 

 an agriculture tolerably enlightened and aiilive ; extenfive 

 trade and manufactures ; the powers of which, on the im- 

 provement of the foil, require nothing but the foftering 

 hand of legiHative encouragement, for their complete de- 

 velopement, with effefts almoft incalculable. The abun- 

 dant fupply of coal, wood, and other materials, eflential 

 to the leading manufactures of this diftriCt, in wool and 

 iron, added to all its other advantages, cannot fail to ren- 

 der it an object of furvey peculiarly interefting ; and the 

 candid reader of the revifed work, now publiflicd, will al- 

 low, with us, that ample juftice has been done to it. 



In the introdutlion, the editor fays, " Under the au- 

 thority of the Board, my friends IVlefi'rs Rennie and Shir- 

 reff, and I, furveyed the U'^e/I Riding of TorkJJnre ; and, 

 during our progrefs, fcarce a difference of opinion occur- 

 red refpeCting the matters which underwent our exami- 

 nation. We remained about five weeks in the diftrlCf j 

 and, during that time, ufed every means in our power to 

 gain an intimate knowledge of the difl'erent modes in 

 which hufbandry was carried on, as well as the general 

 and local impediments to its improvement. " 



Though inhabitants of a diltant part of, the country, 

 and entire ftrangers to llie diftri(!ft in queftion, before 

 the prefent occafion, the furveyors have performed their 

 taflc with a degree of liberal impartiality ? and, though 

 practical adepts in agriculture themfelves, have evinced 

 a difpoiltion fo candid and unobtrufive, in their remarks 

 on defects, and in their recommendations of better prac- 

 tice, that this v/ork cannot fail to infure the approbation 

 of thofe competent to judge, among all clalfes of the 

 people of the Riding, into whofe hands it may fall ; and 

 furely It behoves every one of common inLelligence, 



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