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years, not fewer than three hundred perfons: on art 
average are faid to have vifited the former place 
every fummer, and four or five times that number 
the latter, which greatly increafes the value of the 
land round thefe places. 
Provifions, however, are plentiful; and befides 
a great abundance of moft excellent fifh, the mar- 
kets are fupplied in moft parts of the county with 
beef, at four-pence per pound; mutton, at four- 
pence halfpenny; chicken, at fifteen-pence per 
couple; geefe, half-a-crown each; and turkeys, at 
three fhillings and fix-pence each. 
I confider the great outlines for improvement in 
Dorfetfhire to confift in the introduction of the 
Norfolk hufbandry, which is certainly the moft 
productive of any arable diftrict in the kingdom— 
the feparation of tenures—the cultivation of wafte 
land, and the ornamenting of it by plantations ; 
and, I truft, under fo valuable a patronage as that 
which it will now have, a fpirit of improvement 
will be excited equal to its natural refources: and 
if in the preceding reprefentation I have pointed 
out any idea which may lead to its advantage and 
profperity, I fhall think my labour amply com- 
penfated. 
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