4. The means of promoting the improvement 

 of the people, in regard to their health, 

 industry, and morals, founded on %jhatif~ 

 tical furvey, or a minute and careful en- 

 quiry into the a&ual flate of even' paro- 

 chial diftricl in the kingdom, and the ciiv 

 cumftances of its inhabitants. 



Under one or other of thefe heads, every point 

 of real importance, that can tend to promote the 

 general happinefs of a great nation, feems to be in- 

 cluded. 



Inveftigations cf fo extenfive and fo complicated 

 a nature, muft require, it is evident, a confidera- 

 ble fpace of time before they can be completed. 

 Differing indeed in many refpects from each other, 

 it is better, perhaps, that they mould be under- 

 taken at different periods, and feparately confider- 

 cd. Under that imprefiion, the Board of Agricul- 

 ture has hitherto directed its attention to the fiid 

 point only, namely, the cultivation of the furface, 

 and the rcfourccs to be derived from it. 



That the fads efiential for fuch an invefligation, 

 might be collected with more celerity and advan- 

 tage, a number of intelligent and refpcclable indi- 

 viduals were appointed, to furnifll the Board with 

 accounts of the Hate of hufbandry, and the means 

 (A improving the different difiricts of the kingdom, 

 The returns th v iVnt were printe 1, and ci;. .1. 



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