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In preparing thefe materials for publi- 

 cation I was defirous, on the principle of 

 fimplicity, to have united the two regif- 

 ters : that is, to have incorporated the 

 MINUTES with the fyflematized matter. 

 But this I found entirely incompatible 

 with the fimplicity I was feeking. Many 

 of the individual minutes pertaining 

 to a. variety of diflinct fubjects, would 

 not aflimilate with any one of them 3 

 while others were, in flrictnefs, foreign 

 to the fyftem of practice prevalent in the 

 Diflrict -, being upon incidents in my own 

 practice, and upon obfervations and reflec- 

 tions on fubjects not efpecially connected 

 with the rural affairs of Norfolk, but 

 equally relative to the rural economy of 

 the Ifland at large. 



Thus, feeing the neceffity of keeping 

 the two regifters diflinct, in fome degree, I 

 thought it right to let them remain (with 

 a few exceptions) in the manner in 

 which they were written : but, in order 

 tp connect them as intimately as the nature 



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