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Nor can he take his leave of the above Gentlemen, or thofe 

 from whom he derived fimilar affiltance, and by whom he 

 was equally well received in Cambridgefhii., without ex- 

 prefling much concern, for that preirurc of circumftances 

 which prevented his more full and complete invefligation of 

 the fubjecls of the refpeclive furveys. In the loofe man- 

 ner in which he has confequently been obhged to execute 

 thefe inquiries and to haflen them out of hand, they have cofl 

 him For unavoidable expences only, more than two hundred 

 guineas, over and above the one hundred and twenty-five 

 pounds the Board of Agriculture has allowed for his indem- 

 nification of all the expences he has been put to, together 

 with the fixteen months labour, he has fo unremittingly be- 

 flowed upon the bufinefs. Laftly ; under the fullefl con- 

 vi6lion of the necellity and importance of fo noble a na- 

 tional inftitution ; and ferioufly impreffed with the extent 

 and value of benefit that mufl: refult from its labours, he 

 takes his leave of the Board of Agriculture ; but not without 

 very fenfibly regretting the peculiar circumftances of his 

 prefent fituation, that will no longer allow him to in- 

 dulge in a purfuit to which he is fo fondly attached— at 

 the fame time he wiflies very refpedfully to aflure the 

 Board of Agriculture, no change of circumftances, can 

 in any wife abate that defire and zeal w^jth which he muft 

 ever be adluated, to contribute even the fmalleft of his very 

 humble efforts towards furthering the truly great, and 

 important objeds of the inftitution. 



No. 8, Arundel Street^ Strand, 

 March I, 1795. 



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