Volume 1

General view of the agriculture and minerals of Derbyshire, with observations on the means of their improvement / [John Farey].

  • Farey, John, 1766-1826
Date:
1811-1817
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Credit: General view of the agriculture and minerals of Derbyshire, with observations on the means of their improvement / [John Farey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lienee of many to possess an abstract, at least, of the materials collected, led to a further arrangement in the Spring of 1810, with the President of the Board of Agriculture, for incorporating what ap- peared of the most general and useful nature, re- specting the Stratification and Mineral Concerns of Derbyshire, into the first Chapter of my Report to the Board ; and as the printed “ Plan” prescribed by the Board to their County Reporters, for the sake of uniformity in the arrangement of the sub- jects in their several Reports, contained Sections and Heads in this Chapter for most of the subjects, the same has as much as possible been followed in preparing this first Chapter ; which proving, when completed, of the full size for a Volume, the Board, in order to prevent the delay which would attend the completing of the whole Report, referred this for examination, and ordered it for immediate Printing and for separate Sale : con- ceiving, that thus, this and the succeedingVolume, would together furnish the usual information, on the Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Derbyshire, while the present Volume, by itself, might serve to other classes of Readers, as the first of the series of Mineral County Reports, which the Board contemplated on its original institution # in * See “Communications to the Board of Agriculture,” vol. I. Appendix, p. lxviii, or Philosophical and Geological Magazine* \0l;3/, P«bi 1793,