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fhircj and are worth from aoool. to io,ocoL a 

 man. We have, exclufive of the above, fourteen 

 other farmers with eftates fufficient to qualify them 

 as jurors to ferve upon Nifi-prius juries; and have in 

 the whole thirty-fix freeholders, befidcs fix widow 

 women farmers, worth loooL each upon an average. 



You are not to fuppofe that no other parifh bc- 

 fides Burnham hath received benefit from this mode 

 of hufbandry, viz. firfl making the land entirely 

 plain and level ; and fecondly, keeping it perfectly 

 dry by guttering; for the whole flat country I de- 

 fcribed in my laft letter feels its good efFedls, more 

 orlefs; but judging from the new-acquired riches 

 of the inhabitants in general, I conclude no other 

 parifh hath, in the fame number of years, exceeded, 

 if equalled, the place of my nativity. However, I 

 will here take the opportunity of introducing a few 

 hundred acres lying in the parilli of Mere, a great 

 part of which I remember about forty years fince 

 was rented by a capital farmer and judicious grazier 

 called Efgar, at is. per acre; and fome other parts 

 were rented by fundry other farmers, from 2s. to 

 fs. per acre. Mr. Efgar purchafed a large trad of 

 this land in fee fimple, and, according to the report 

 of the day, at twenty Jhillings per acre. He imme- 

 diately began to exert himfelf in making this land 



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