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Board, poffeffed of means fo extremely limited, 

 ihould find it difficult to reach even that degree of 

 perfection which, perhaps, might have been attain- 

 able with more extenfive powers. The candid 

 reader cannot expecl, in thefe Reports, more than 

 a certain portion of ufeful information, fo arrang- 

 ed as to render them a bafis for further and more 

 detailed enquiries. The attention of the intelligent 

 cultivators of the kingdom, however, will doubtlefs 

 be excited, and the minds of men in general gra- 

 dually brought to confider favourably of an un- 

 dertaking, which will enable all to contribute to 

 the national Mores of knowledge, upon topics fo 

 truly interefting as thofe which concern the Agri- 

 cultural interefts of their country — interefls which, 

 on juft principles, never can be improved, until 

 the prefent ilate of the kingdom is fully knoivn, 

 and the means of its future improvement afcer- 

 tained with minutenefs and accuracy. 



" tie of every kind ; the good, the indifferent, and the bad 

 «' lands ; all the clergy, regular and fecular, their revenues, 

 " thofe of the towns, and thofe of the communities. 



" All thefe heads, in mod of their accounts, are confufed 

 " and imperfect ; and it is frequently neceffary to fearch with 

 '* great care and pains to find what is wanted. The defign 

 <: was excellent, and would have been of the greateft u'fe, had 

 tJ it been executed with judgment and uniformity." 



