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a large scale, would probably have laid aside thework, as containing a number of details, regardingsmaller districts, in which he could feel but little in-terest.

In like manner, a stranger might desire to knowthe size of the greater rivers, and most considerablelakes in Scotland , the extent of its sea-coast, includ-ing its numerous bays, or arms of the sea ; and toform some idea of its minerals, and of' the commerceand manufactures of the country; but to enter intothe minutim of these heads of inquiry, would haverendered the Report itself too prolix and bulky.

In short, it was proposed to draw up a work, re-sembling as much as possible the plan generally fol-lowed, when Reports are made to the Sovereign, byany Board of Commissioners, or to either House ofParliament , by a Committee appointed for the inves-tigation of any particular point. In such cases, thesubject under discussion, and its results, are clearly,yet concisely stated in the body of the report jwhile the minute details of particular circumstances,and the evidence on which the whole is founded, arecontained in an appendix, or series of appendixes.

An erroneous idea has been entertained by some,that this Report ought to have been entirely confin-ed to agricultural topics. But it must not be for-gotten, that the institution, under the direction ofwhich the Report has been drawn up, is not onlya Board of Agriculture, but also “ of Internal Im-provement j” and that the Report itself, not only