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may at leaft be fecured from being injured, and 
this has been adopted in fome late inclofures, by 
fetting out the allotments of arable land, to men of 
that defcription, adjoining to each other, in one or 
more of the fields, and directing the fame to remain 
ftill in an uninclfed flate, with a common right of 
fheep feed for each perfon over ibe whole, and with 
a common allotment of down land, and another of water 
meadow, if it be to be had conveniently, and fome 
inclofed pafture to each if pofflible. Under thefe 
circumftances, men of fmall property will be en- 
abled, after an inclofure, to keep a common flock 
of fheep, and a common fhepherd to attend them 
as they do now, and they will, in fome degree, det- 
ter their fituation, becaufe their land will be laid in 
large pieces; and as ¢be rules by which they are to. 
inter-common will be fettled by the authority of 
the commiffioners of the inclofure, they will net be 
liable to be trefpaffed and injured by each other, 
or by their more opulent neighbours. 
Notwithftanding fome little facrifices may ie 
thus made, to the intereft and comfort of the fmall 
farmers, in an inclofure of the commonable fields, 
and other commonable lands of a manor, by laying 
their allotments near home, or in foils and fitua- 
tions the moft adapted to their occupation; it is 
very eafy to prove, that the great farmers will ftill: 
be very confiderably benefited, as well as accom~ 
modated. Although, on account of the oblong 
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