PROSPECTUS OF A WORK, 
ENTITLK.D, 
ACCURATE DELINEATIONS 
AND 
DESCRIPTIONS 
OF THE 
NATURAL ORDER 
OF THE VARIOUS 
THAT ARE FOUND IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF 
ENGLAND ANB WALES 
WITH 
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS 
THEREON. 
BY WILLIAM SMITH, 
LANn-SUR VEYOtl AND DRAINER, 
AND MEMBER OF THE BATH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
*' All Nature is but Art unknown to thee ; 
All Chance. Direflion which thou canst not sec ; 
All Utjcord, Harmony not understood ; 
AH partial Evil, universal Good." pofe. 
^1 
IT cannot be necessary to use many words in pointing 
out, to persons of judgment and discrimination, the uses to 
which discoveries of the nature above alluded to, may be 
applied ; for what can be of greater importance in human 
science, than a Complete Theory of the Soil, which man is 
under a divine Injundion to cultivate and replenish, that he 
may derive from that labour his daily subsistence > As on 
this particular province, therefore, depends the acquisition, 
not only of his own conveniencies and comforts, but those of 
every other creature that has been subjected to his will, too 
TrlhteJ by B. M'MiUan, Bow-strcct, Cover.t-£ardcn. 
Fac-simile, very slightly reduced, of the first page of Smith's Prospectus of 1£01 
with Smith's handwriting. The words "befor Title " are in pencil ; 
possibly in another hand. 
