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ffame fources prove fo injurious to the growth of oak and 

 other valuable limber. 



It is impoffible to {late with the leaft probable certainty, 

 the extent of individual, and alfo of national benefit, that 

 muft confequently flow from a general adoption of the moft 

 perfedl fyftem of agricultural management, which the 

 fcience, the foil, the climate of this ^ifland, would poflibly 

 admit of: fuffice it in this place, therefore to fay, that in 

 the humble apprehenfion of the author of this report, fuch 

 a general improvement in the agricultural economics of this 

 kingdom, muft produce an increafe in its internal refources 

 that would be immenfe : upon the prefent occaflon, he can 

 only'ftate what appears from the general average table, to 

 be the extent of improvement of which this county is capa- 

 ble, were its common fields and waftes, under fuch cir- 

 cumftances as would admit their being improved to the fame 

 level of perfedion as are the adjacent lands, which however 

 they may be in a more advanced Itage of profitable cultsva- 

 tion; are yet by no means fo produ6live as they might be 

 made, by a fuperior management ; a truth that is very 

 clearly illuftrated in the two or three inftances which occured 

 in the progrefs of the furvey. Upon thefe principles then, 

 and according to the data deduced from the journal, and 

 exibited in the general average table ; the extent of im- 

 provement of which this county is immediately capable 

 (and without further fkill or improvement in the fcience of 

 agriculture) will ftand thus ; 



A general 



