A i) V £■ R T I S E M E N^T, XXlX* 



furnilli my quota of information , by pre- 

 fcntin^ to the Board a Report of the 

 Central Highlands of Scotland; — 

 wher5 I was refident, at the time of its 

 eftablifliment : and this I did, under the 

 natural imprefiion, that I was, in effe(f(?', 

 working in my ovv^n field, and with fellow 

 laborers, who were jointly employed, in 

 colleding fads, that could not fail of 

 proving ufeful, to the General Work, 



which has ever been the eventual 



Object of my Undertaking *. 



It did not, however, flrike me, at that 

 time, as it has done fmce, that the Board's 

 Reports may be rendered more immediately 

 ferviceable to my Work, in affifting to fill 

 up the vacant interflices of my Reglfters ; 

 and thereby to make them more worthy, 

 than otherwife they would have been, of 



the 



* See the prefatory Advertisement to the Rural 

 Economy of Norfolk, for the outlines of tliis Under- 

 * taking;. 



