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Southey's having had recourse to the same authority in the latter part 

 of his third volume. 



The general reader may not be peculiarly interested with that por- 

 tion of this publication which details the towns and their productions, 

 and in which monotony is unavoidable, although they will be valua- 

 ble as references for the merchant and many others, as, with the evi- 

 dently growing commerce of this fine country, already taking off" 

 annually three million of British manufactures, each of those places 

 will progressively become more and more important. 



The plates, which are amongst the best in their style, are executed, 

 by an able artist, upon stone, from sketches taken on the spot; and 

 the map is formed by myself from the materials of the Work. The 

 Appendix is explanatory of the objects in Zoology and Phytology, 

 which would not have been generally understood by their native 

 designations ; and I must here apologize to the reader for not present- 

 ing them in scientific nomenclature. 



