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do great an improvement as that of inclofing and 
cultivating the commonable lands, will no longer 
be neglected. 
The tra¢ts of commons which’are mentioned to 
lie in a line from Weftbury towards Cricklade, are 
detached and difperfed in numerous pieces, and 
belong to a variety of parifhes, but the whole con- 
tent of them is fuppofed to exceed three thoufand 
acres. And though the greater part of them at 
prefent turn to very little account, not only from 
the wet, rotten {tate in which they lie every winter, 
but from the unprofitable kind of ftock that are 
ufually kept on them, they want only inclofing 
and draining, to make them as good pafture land 
as many of the furrounding inclofures. 
The improvement by inclofing them might, in 
many inftances, be taken at from fifteen to twenty 
fhillings per acre; and, indeed, inclofures of com- 
mons of this defcription frequently improve, not 
only the commons themfelves, but alfo the adjoin- 
ing inclofures, by preventing the occupiers from con- 
tinually mowing the latter, and carrying off the hay. 
here are a few heaths in this diftriét, (and but 
a few) which might be improved by ploughing. 
There being but few inftances where there are al- 
terative manures, fuch as lime, chalk, marle, &c. 
which are properly adapted to them, to be got very 
near; the greater part of them, particularly thofe 
about Bradon Foreft, would, in general, pay better 
for planting. Very 
