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{tis a happy thing for the land-owners of the 
diftrict, that the predilection of the occupiers is fo 
{trong for pafture land. Land fo cold and fo wet 
in its Nature, as a great part of the vale land of this 
diftrict, can never be permanently improved while 
under the plough. The bare mention of a known fad, 
that the comparative value of land of equal native good 
nefs, in a pafiure or an arable fiate, is ufually as two to 
one, is a fufficient proof of this. ‘The lands that are 
cold and wet fhould be laid down to grafs, and 
drained; and this would increafe the quantity of 
manure for the warm and dry lands, which would 
be very profitably kept in tillage. 
This particularly applies to all the deep, cold 
foils, between Chippenham and Wootten-Baffet. 
As to the ftone-brafh land, in the North-weft 
part of the diftrict, it has been already obferved, 
that the general fyftem of hufbandry, and particu- 
larly the almoft entire dependance on the fheep- 
fold for manure, is not ftrictly reconcileable to rea- 
fon, in many parts of this diftriét. All the light 
and dry parts, which require treading to make them 
clofer, are undoubtedly proper for fheep-folding ; 
but many of the wet cold parts are not at all calcu- 
lated for that fyftem. Thofe of the latter defcrip- 
tion are by no means fit or fafe for fheep without 
draining; and as that is feldom pra€ticable to any 
extent, in an arable ftate, many of them fhould be 
laid down as pafture. Thofe parts which are al- 
ready 
