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the law now ftands the burden may be immoderate, 
and therefore to every perfon acquainted with the 
value of money (which the farmers are now more 
than formerly, and know how to make calcula- 
tions) it cannot be expected that they will lay out 
any confiderable f{um, when the firft 11 per cent. 
profit goes to the impropriator, before they can re- 
ceive any advantage themfelves: and, in cafe ofa 
lofs, that lofs is augmented by the impropriators 
taking a tenth part of the capital laid out, as far 
as it was returned to the occupiers. 
THE STROUDWATER HILLS. 
Tue foil on thefe hills.is chiefly light loam; not 
fo tenacious as the Cotfwolds, nor fo productive ; 
there is likewife fome quantity of four wet land; 
the climate is nearly fimilar to the Cotfwolds; the 
properties.are various, as is the fize of the farms. 
On the hills, ftrictly fpeaking, it is fuppofed, nine- 
tenths of the land is arable. The approved courfe 
of crops, the fame as before noted of the Cotf- 
wolds. Onthe vallies there are large tracts of good 
meadow land, which is applied both to grazing and 
the dairy; but moftly the latter. There is fome 
quantity of land watered, and a great deal more is 
capable of that improvement; but the mills inter- 
fere greatly; for the dairies the cattle are chiefly 
bred, 
