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to get it into a ftate of cultivation; but thofe fmall 
fpots which have been inclofed and feem like en- 
croachments from it, although inthe hands of very 
poor people, point out how very capable the whole 
is of improvement: and I am perfuaded, that if 
‘the property in the vicinity of Poole, which abounds 
with inhabitants of great opulence and refpe€tability, 
were to be parcelled out and let in fmall lots upon 
long leafes, it would foon wear a face of cultivation 
highly profitable, and would ina few years be trebled 
in value, inftead of being at prefent a mere blank, 
and producing no real benefit to its neighbourhood, 
or the community at large. 
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS, 
Very few parifhes in this county have of late 
years been inclofed; there are fome, however, be- 
tween Wimborn-Minfter and ‘Blandford, and in the 
vale of Blackmoor, which are faid to anfwer ex- 
tremely well, and to have much increafed the va- 
lue.of the property therein; but there are no eftates 
in the county which have increafed in value fo much 
as thofe about towns and villages upon the coaft, 
which are reforted to annually by vifitors for the 
purpofe of bathing; in thefe places, fuch as Lyme, 
Weymouth, &c. houfes have been doubled, and in 
many inftances trebled in value. In the laft twenty 
G 2 years, 
