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the Revolution we find the value of thefe fame lands 

 increafcd to about -fcventy-fix thoufand eight hun- 

 dred pounds, which is fix fliillings per acre upon an 

 average : at prefent I value this trad of country at 

 thirty fliillings an acre, one with another ; and from 

 the minutefl: and bed calculations I have been ena- 

 bled to make in the courfe of forty years experience 

 upon the fpot, ading in the three-fold capacity of a 

 confiderable farmer, a practical agriculturifl:, and a 

 land-furveyor, I adduce one general efi.imate, which 

 may be arranged as follows: 



Pounds 

 Acres per annum. 



20,000 acres of rich pafhire land in a high degree 

 of culture, ftatute meafure, exclufive of 

 fences worth 2I, los. per acre per annum 50,000 



30,000 acres of uneven pafture land in large clofes, 

 formerly arable, laid out to grafs in ridges 

 20 feet wide, in other refpeds as rich as 

 tlie former, worth 2I. per acre - - - 60,000 



60,000 acres of palhire land, which ought to be 

 made into clofes from 10 to 30 acres 

 each, and fo exchanged as to make farms 

 within ring fences, in which cafe, it might, 

 by good management, be made worth 2L 

 per acre in two years, worth at prefent 

 il. 10s. per acre - ------ 90,000 



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