Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Statistical Account of the British Empire, Vol. 1 of 2: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions
In?uenced by this feeling, the author of this work submitted, some years ago, a proposal to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know ledge for the publication of a statistical account of the British empire. The Society readily and liberally agreed to it; and the work now before the reader is the fruit of that arrangement.
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