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Excerpt from Statistical Survey of the County of Clare, With Observations on the Means of Improvement: Drawn Up for the Consideration, and by Direction of the Dublin Society Ennis or Killaloe, or the number of turf-kishes in the streets of Ennis, with a multitude Of other remarks equally sagacious and liberal. With the most sangume hopes of success I wrote and applied to many of the clergy, who from their local knowledge, liberal education, habit of putting their thoughts on paper, and great leisure, were, Ifondly imagined, perfectly competent to. Give me the fullest information. The only written answers I received are de tailed in the work; I need not disgust the reader with a repetition. Had I the good fortune to have found the majority Of the clergy as liberal as the Rev. Mr. Graham, curate of Kilrush, the Survey would make a very difi'erent appearance, and would be more freei from those errors, which must, I deplore, be' found In the work. Were I possessed of that useful confidence of tho'rson of-a celebrated agricultural author, who was in this county'from England a few years since, I might possibly have gleaned more informa tion; but, as Ifound at an early period, that his queries were usually ridiculed, and his man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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