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PREFACE. 



SOME private biifinefs carrying me in- 

 to the fouth of Wales, gave birth to 

 the Six Weeks Tour, which I wrote chiefly 

 as an amufement on the road ; nor was I 

 fenfible that the papers might be of ufe, till 

 I fat down to conhder them again. It then 

 appeared to me, that a view of EngliJIo 

 agriculture would be ferviceable. 



The public, by a very kind reception of 

 it, has confirmed the idea, and induced 

 me to undertake a more extenfive Tour. — 

 But as my time before was limited, and 

 I had other things to regard befides my 

 book, I determined to have no other employ- 

 ment in my new journey, and to take fuch 

 means of procuring intelligence, as were 

 open to a perfon, who could command fo 

 few advantages. 



With this view, I inferted the following 

 advertifement, in many of the London pa- 

 pers, and in all the country ones, published 

 near my intended rout. 



The Author of the Six Weeks Tour 

 through the fouthern counties of England 



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