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REMARKS ON INCLOSING COMMONABLE LANDS. 
Ir has been already remarked, and the affertion 
is founded on an accurate enquiry and obfervation, 
- that at this time the greateft part of the parifhes in 
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this diftrict are wholly, or partly, in a common- 
field itate. Reafons have alfo been given, why it 
has fo long remained in that ftate, on account of 
the peculiar fhape and fituation of a great number 
of manors, and the local difficulties attending a 
divifion. And thefe reafons have hitherto operated 
to preferve many of them in that ftate, though pro- 
pofals are daily made for a divifion. 
Many advantages, it is certain, have been de- 
rived from inclofures already made; and it may 
be proper now to ftate the probable advantages to 
be expected from inclofing, or at leaft dividing, 
and putting in feveralty, thofe lands now in a ftate 
of commonage, with the moft practical means of 
obviating fuch difadvantages as will neceffarily 
arife from a new order of things, in a country lefs 
favourable than many others to improvements of 
this kind. 
Difadvantages of the Common Field Hufbandry. 
The peculiar difadvantages, attending the com- 
mon-field ftate of hufbandry in this diftrict, have 
already been faid to be, the obligation of plough- 
ing and cropping all kinds of foil alike; the almoft 
total 
