INTRODUCTION. 



A SECOND Report for the County of Nor- 

 folk, by a different Writer from the Gentleman 

 who executed the first, demands a short expla- 

 nation, to obviate any idea tending to lower the 

 estimation in which the Original Report is justly 

 held. There have been various instances of se- 

 cond, and even third Reports of the same County, 

 all by different hands ; but in the case of Norfolk 

 a new Report was demanded, for a local reason. 

 The introduction of a new breed of Sheep, and 

 the rapidity with which the practice of Drilling 

 spread in the County, had effedled so great a 

 change in the state of Norfolk Husbandry, that 

 all former works on the Agriculture of that ce- 

 lebrated County must necessarily be deficient, 

 however excellent in other respe«5ls. The pre- 

 sent Report does not appear to the exclusion 

 of the former, but merely in assistance of it ; 

 that such objeds as were unnoticed, or but 



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