Statistical Survey of the County of Cork: With Observations on the Means of Improvement (Classic Reprint)

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Tute of relation to it. He has to claim the indulgence of the reader for the repetition of similar modes and practices, hardly avoidable in Reports of this nature, where so great a same ness must necessarily be found. He deemed it a less excusable fault to be negligent than tiresome. After all he will probably be charger able with many omissions, particularly in the accounts of individual management, every one of which it was impossible to describe without too great an extension of the work. He trusts, that this will be accepted as an apology for a silence not arising from want of respect, or over 'sight of merit, but from fear of prolixity. It is to be regretted, that the difficulty of procuring a competent artist, and his own ignorance of drawing, has precluded the accompaniment of, what this county peculiarly affords, pictu resque views of many beautiful and romantic places. Though not essential to the main object of the work, they would form a very pleasing addition, possessmg for the most part, among other recommendations, the grace of.

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