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truth will be allowed to attach to them by others: and they 
are certainly worthy of very ferious confideration, from all 
intelligent friends of general order, morality, and happinefs. 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
TO THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 
THE foregoing extracts are made by the obliging permiffion 
of the BoaRD OF AGRICULTURE, from the furveys of the 
three counties of Dorfet, Wilts, and Gloucefter, which, with 
the county of Somerfet, conftituted the original bounds of the 
“< Bath Agricultural Society.’ The furvey of the latter county 
not being yet completed, cannot be noticed in this volume; but 
what has thus been, by the aforefaid permiffion, flected, was 
deemed a tribute of attention, which the Committee of the 
“ Bath and Weft of England Society” was defirous of paying 
to parts of a diftriét, to which the Society has owed fo much cor- 
dial fupport, and on the improvement of which much folicitude 
has been beftowed. The Society, in common with every other 
patriotic body and individual, has reafon to expec? more abun- 
dant effects from the noble exertions of the BOARD; and from 
the condefcending attention which this Society has experienced 
from an inftitution fo extenfive in its views and meafures, it is 
hoped the amicable intercourfe, fo happily begun, will increafe, 
and long continue, to the mutual fatisfaction of the two bodies, 
and the lafting advantage of the nation at large. 
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