OBSERVATIONS, &c. 



INTRODUCTION. 



It redounds very much to the general honour of 

 the British nation, as well as to the particular cre- 

 dit of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, 

 Manufactures, and Commerce, and several other 

 associations for the advancement of Agriculture, 

 Sec. that the face of the country has, in the course 

 of the present century, received so much improve- 

 ment, and such added beauty. 



The premiums and honorary marks of distinc- 

 tion held forth by these societies have excited a 

 spirit of emulation, or suggested a spirit of im- 

 provement, among persons of every rank of life, 

 which have been productive of many discoveries of 

 no common benefit in their present effects, and of 

 great promise from their future consequences, to 

 the community at large. 



But notwithstanding the strides which modern 



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