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Unilcr one oi other of these heads, every point of real 

 importance thnt can tend to promote the general happiness 

 of a great naiion, seems to be included. 



Invcstifrations ot so extensive and vSo complicated a na- 

 ture, must require, it is evident, a considerable space of 

 time before thev can be completed. DitFcring indeed in 

 many respe(5ls from each other, it is better perhaps that 

 thcv should be undertaken at different periods, and sepa- 

 rately considered. Under that impression, the Board of 

 Agriculture has hitherto direcShed its attention to the first 

 point only, namely, the cultivation of tlie surface, and tlie 

 resources to be derived froin it. 



Tliat the fad1:s essential for such an investigation might 

 be coUefled with more celerity and advantage, a number 

 of intelligent and respe6table individuals were appointed, 

 to furnish the Board with accounts of the state of husban- 

 dry, and the means of improving the different distri£ls of 

 the kingdom. The returns they sent were printed, and 

 circulated by every means the Board of Agriculture could 

 devise, in the districts to which they respe6lively related ; 

 and in consequence of that circulation, a great mass of ad- 

 ditional valuable information has been obtained. For the 

 purpose of communicating that information to the Public 

 in general, but more especially to those Counties the most 

 interested therein, the Board has resolved to re-print the 

 Survey of each County, as soon as it seemed to be fit for 

 publication; and, among several equally advanced, the 

 Counties ot Norfolk and Lancaster were pitched upon for 

 the commencement of the proposed publication ; it being 

 thought most advisabte to begin with one County on 

 the Eastern, and another pn the Western Coast of the 

 island. When all these Surveys shall have been thus re- 

 printed, it will be attended willi little difficulty to draw up 



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