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To which may be added, a capacity of improvement in the arable 

 and pasture lands inclosed, of at least five shillings p^r acre, amount- 

 ing tr 1:13,6251. 



These blessed effects would be the natural consequence of that 

 spirit of industry, which public encouragement would excite, would 

 add 250,000b pier annum to the rental of the nation, and be much 

 more valuable, than any foreign conquest of treble the amount. 

 Would to God that nations would learn wisdom, and instead of 

 coveting distant territory, improve to the utmost, that which they 

 possess. 



It now only remains for me to apologize to the Board and the 

 Public, for the desultory and procrastinated way, in which this 

 Report has been executed. 



The various public, as well as private business, in wHch I was 

 engaged, prior to my undertaking this survey, could not be dis- 

 pensed with ; I have therefore only had it in my power, to snatch. 

 an occasional hour, from other numerous avocations. Had not my 

 general knowledge of the county, and particularly of the northern 

 awd middle districts, enabled me to write on its practices without 

 a personal survey, I must have declined the undertaking. As it is, 

 3, have felt, and still feel, a considerable portion of regret, that I 

 did not resign the appointment, as the Board might h,iv r e then. se- 

 lected some person possessed not only of moxe leisure, but of supe^ 

 rioj ability. 



Before 



