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jiid not occur to me, that fuch an inftkution 

 would, in any way, interfere with my own 

 undertaking, — and much lefs, that it would 

 become a valuable fource of information, 

 inofl: happily calculated to prpmpte it. 



But finding the meafure of provincial 

 farveys adopted, and feeing the public 

 benefit it was capable of producing, I v\^as 

 among the jir-ft to comply with the requell 

 of my honoi-able Friend, the President 

 OF THE BoARP, — whofc public fpirit 

 entitles him to every attention, — and to 



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few gratifications, except what have occafionally rifen 

 from his own reflections, to indulge himfclf, for once, in 

 fuffering his refleiStions to force their v/ay into public 

 jiotice — and to fuggeft — that hud the General Bill 

 OF Inclosure, which he earneflly recommended, in 

 1788 (feethe Rural Economy of Yorkshire, Vol.1. 

 ?ao-e 1 01.), been prefentiy pafTed into a law, and had a 

 Board of Agriculture bgen inftitutcd, in 1790, and 

 DULY ENCOURAGED, it is more than probable, 

 that the diftrefling fcarcity, v/hich this Country exper 

 rienceJ, in the fuinmer of 1795, would not now have lain 

 ?. reproach, on the Political Economy of the 

 j(flaj.d. 



