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PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. 



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SO many circumftances have confpired 

 to imprefs the neceffity of an increafed attention 

 to agriculture, the purfuit is now become fo 



faftiionable, and fo much has already been writ- -. 



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 ten in recommendation of rural economy (de re 



Ruftica), that any additional argument in favour 

 of this fubjeft feems to be fuperfluous. 



I fhall therefore only 'obferve, that, if thofc 

 gentlemen and farmers, inhabitants of this county, 

 into whofc hands this Report may fall, {hould 

 find in it only what is familiar to them, they will 

 have the goodnefs to attribute that to the nature 

 of the undertaking, and to confider it as a proof 

 of its fidelity ; and fliould they find it deficient, 

 they will attribute that deficiency to the difficulty 

 of obtaining accurate information upon fo great 

 b a V a variety 



