THE 



WEST OF ENGLAND. 



Introductory Remarks. 



THIS popular appellation Is ufually 

 given to the four moft Weftern 

 Counties ; namely, Cornwall, Devon- 

 shire, Somersetshire, and Dorset- 

 shire* 



But, in examining a Country, like Eng- 

 land, with a view to the exifting ftate of 

 its Agriculture, and the other bran- 

 ches of its Rural Economy, the arbi- 

 trary lines of Counties are to be wholly 

 difregarded. For if any plan was obferved 

 in determining the outlines of Provinces, in 

 this Ifland, it certainly had no referjsnce or 

 alliance whatever to Agriculture ; unlefs it 

 were to divide, between oppofing claim- 



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