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I apprehend that the mode of improving meadow 

 land, as here laid down, will equally apply to the 

 fens of Cambridgcfhire, the flat part of Lincoln- 

 fhire, and the low meadows bordering upon the 

 Thames, the Trent, and fome other great rivers. 

 I have travelled in thofe counties, and obferved 

 their method of hufbandry to differ gready from 

 what I have pradifed with good fuccefs, for in ge- 

 neral they dig their gutters crooked and without 

 any order. I have exprefled my fentiments very 

 freely to fome of the farmers in Lincolnfhire, Not- 

 tinghamfhire, Leicefterfhire, and fome other coun- 

 ties, who will not be perfuaded but their beft lands 

 exceed in richnefs thofe of the Northern and Wef- 

 tern parts of England ; yet I do not recoiled any 

 large farms in the Eaftern counties, which lie at a 

 diftance from market-towns, that exceed 30s. an 

 acre per annum upon an average^ whereas our 

 farmers can well afford to pay 40s. an acre, ftatute 

 meafure, for all thofe lands that are brought into the 

 higheft degree of culture; and feveral thoufand acres 

 in this county are now let at 50s. per acre, landlord 

 paying all difburfements. 



Some years fince I let a farm to a poor man, who 

 defired an account of his profit and lofs might be 

 kept by his neighbour, Mr. John Adams, who, 

 about itvi^Ti o'clock in the evening of the 19th of 



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