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But of all the fallow fields which came under our obferva- 

 tion, one, a fliort way from Brigg, was under the mod 

 wretched management. It was an extenOve common field, 

 of pood foil, but very foul, and had received only a fingle 

 ploughing, which was given by cleaving down the high broad 

 ridges To our utter furprife, though in the firft week of 

 July, the poflcflbrs were covering the quick weeds and 

 thilUes with dung ; they had not fo much as given it a har- 

 rowing ; but with their three and four-horfe teams, were 

 driving out the manure in all directions. We held up our 

 hands in amazement at fuch barbarous condutSt : and one of 

 my friends was for clearing the country of fuch Goths., and, 

 tranfporting them at once to Botany Bay, where indeed many 

 have gone, who were nuifances to th^>r country in an inferior 

 degree. 



The uppci' parts of Lincoln are crowded with thefe com- 

 mon fields, and they in reality entail fhame upon its huf- 

 bandry The improvements made upon thofe lately divided, 

 give the moft cohvincing proof of the benefit attending the 

 laying them in feveralty. At Barton upon the Humber, where 

 a large common field was lately divided, v/e faw as well ma- 

 naged land as could be defiretl. A Mr Graburn now pof- 

 fefles confiderable portions of this field, which are well in- 

 clofcd, carrying crops of excellent quality, clean, and in the 

 moft pevfe<Sl order. It is a real pleafure to examine fuch 

 management. 



Croffing the Humber from ]?arton, we landed at Hull, 

 which is a populous town, and carrying on an extenfive 

 trade to the Baltic, and other parts. From this place, we 

 came up to the Eaft Riding, by Beverly, to York, and were 

 rather difappointcd with the country through which we paf- 

 fed. About Hull, the land is chiefly in grafs, as is indeed at 

 confiderable proportion all the way to York. Some of the 

 land is of a dry moorilh kind, cirrying heath and gorfc ; and 

 at the gates or York we viewed a common fi.eld of fine dry 

 deep loam, which was in a condition not much fuptrior to 

 thofe already mentioned. 



As the remainder of qur route homeward was through the 

 tra6t of country dcfcribed in the firlt of thefe letters, it is 

 unneceflary to trouble you with our progrefs northward ; 

 and (hall conclude with the following obf-rvations : — ^That, 

 wherever we have found common fields, the hufb^ndry was 

 uniformly bad, though in difFcrent degrees : That, wherever 

 the land was pofieiTed Vv'ithout a leafe, its condition was 

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