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come much better from more able 

 hands. 



And as it may probably become a 

 question, how as an individual I 

 should have had the opportunity of 

 making the observations which are 

 contained in the following sheets, or 

 how a person residing at such a dis- 

 tance could have bestowed the time 

 that must be necessary for the pur- 

 pose ; I must answer, that I have 

 had occasion for the last four years to 

 travel those counties more frequently 

 than falls to the lot of men of my 

 profession in general. It may also be 

 remarked, that I have had an in- 

 terest in the subject greater than most 

 other persons, who perhaps, with 

 more enlightened and intelligent 

 minds than myself, may have visited 

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