STATISTICAL SURVEY 



done, and much oF what has been done is dill capable 

 of further improvement: 



Poffibility and means of improving it. 



To enter into a minute detail of the different pracVi- 

 cal modes, neceflary to purfue for the improvement of 

 the great variety of foils of this county, would require 

 a large volume, which, however, at a future day, I 

 hope to fet forth in another work, now in tolerable 

 forwardnefs. At prefent I fhall only ftate a few ob- 

 fervations, relative to the great outlines of reclaiming 

 unprofitable land. 



I have already treated largely on the fubjecl: of roads; 

 but the nature of the objec> under confideration re- 

 quires me to fay a little more here. It has been ob- 

 ferved of what infinite advantage roads are, in help- 

 ing to get at bog-timber, limeftone, &c. Now, in 

 cafe of bog-timber and limeftone being altogether out 

 of the qucftion, and that a large fcope of bog or moun- 

 tain was in contemplation of being reclaimed, the firft 

 object the cultivator fhould have in view, after drain- 

 ing, are roads, to draw forward materials to reclaim 

 foch parts ; therefore draining and making of roads 

 fhould go hand in hand, fince their dependance on 

 each other is fo nearly connected. 



It is the public who pay for roads, and there is 

 no doubt that every encouragement fliould be given to 



then, 



