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Updated: June 8, 2025

The work contains more statistics than reflections, and is exactly what its title implies a succinct account of England, beginning with its name, its climate, its topography, and giving information, now invaluable, about everything included in its constitution and in its economy. The extract printed here is, as is indicated, from pp. 383-389 and p. 401.

- An English Garner: Critical Essays & Literary Fragments