PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. 



a variety of points, and not to any want of dili- 

 gence in the reporter. If the readers, who are 



not of this county, fliould be difappointed in their 



. 

 ideas of variety of information on rural fubje&s, 



from a country fo populous ancT fo rich as the 

 county of Down, that they muft attribute to the 

 mode ofjroccupation, the farms being generally 

 Jmall, and, in moft inftances, held as merely fub- 

 fervient to the manufacture of the county. At 

 the fame time I mud obferve, there are many 

 ,/perfons, gentlemen and farmers, who are bright 

 examples, both of attention and Ikill, in every 

 branch of rural economy. 



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