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were accordingly laid out in draining and levelling, 

 by which (imple method of innprovennent it foon 

 became worth 15I. per annum, and was laft year 

 fold cheap by my filler's hufband for 360I. 



Four acres of this land were let at 40s. per ann. 

 but being fo exceedingly poor the tenant refufed to 

 continue the pofleflTion, unlefs the rent was abated 

 to il. per annum. This was infulHcient to keep 

 fences and pay taxes, which amounted to more than 

 20s. a year upon an average for forty years toge- 

 ther. Here, then, was a clofe worth nothing, nay 

 worfe than nothing, for when it was left open to 

 the common it had ftill taxes to pay. I had in 

 early life travelled through Cornwall, and fome- 

 Avhere upon the fouthern coaft in my road to Pen- 

 zance obferved the people bufily employed in culti- 

 vating the land with fea fand.* This I recolledled, 

 and as the clofe lay within half a mile of the fea- 

 fhore, an experiment was tried fufficient to prove 

 that perfeverance would have been attended with 

 amazing fuccefs; but having fuch mountains of dry 

 fand upon the coaft to pafs over before we can 



• Since I wrote the above I am Informed by a gentleman from 

 Cornwall, that the farmers of that county are fo well acquainted with 

 the good efieds of fea fand as a rioh manure, that it Is taken in barges 

 up the rivers as far as they are navig .ble, and afteinvards carried on 

 Jiorfeback ten or more miles before it is thrown over the land. 



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