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for many years, and I have fi nee added it to a farmj 

 but it is worth at prefent 1 2I. per annum. 



I have made other improvements and experi- 

 ments upon meadow land that have come very near 

 to, but none that have exceeded, thofe already re- 

 lated. One thing I think worth remarking, viz. 

 in the year 1759 ^ ^^'^^ folicited to purchafe fixty- 

 one acres of land in. Burnham at 200I.; and this 

 eftate hath fince been fo much improved, that I 

 would now be glad to contradt for the fee of it at 

 aoool. Indeed, fince this time, various eftates, to 

 the amount of a great many hundreds per annum, 

 have been purchafed of perfons at a diftance, by 

 the inhabitants of Burnham, who have improved 

 them much after the fame manner, and who at 

 prefent live very comfortably upon them. 



As one great proof of the advantages arifing 

 from tlvs mode of improving eftates, the inha- 

 bitants of Burnham are at prefent owners of up- 

 wards of joool. per annum in other parifhes, al- 

 though I remember when no man in the parifh 

 (my grandfather excepted) was worth loool. — 

 There were then but five jurors and freeholders in 

 it, whereas at prefent we have fifteen returned to 

 the county feflions as gentlemen, thereby qualifying 

 them to krvc on the grand inqueft of Somerfet- 



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