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the attention of gentlemen of landed property ; the 

 means of promoting fuch improvements, and of re- 

 ducing the ufual exorbitant expence of them, is an 

 objeft well worth the confideration of the Board 

 of Agriculture. Several confiderable trafts of waflc 

 lands have of late years been inclofed, and others are 

 now in contemplation. 



Survey of Norfolk, p. 22. 



BY NATH. KENT, ESQ^ 



There is ftill a confiderable deal of common field 

 land in Norfolk, though a much lefs proportion than 

 in many other counties; for notwithftanding common 

 rights for great cattle exifl; in all of them, and even 

 flicep-walk privileges in many, yet the natural induf- 

 try of the people is fuch, that wherever a peifon 

 can get four or five acres together, he plants a white- 

 thorn hedge round it, and fets an oak at every rod 

 diftance, which is confcnted to by a kind of general 

 courtefey from one neighbour to another. 



It has long been a fubjeft of infinite conjecture, 

 how the land of different eflates became originally 

 fo fcattercd and divided in common fields. Many 

 reafons are affigned. But waving all ufelefs invefti- 

 gation of this fort, I fhall briefly confider the difad- 

 vantages that land of this defcription is at prefeut 

 fubjeft to, and endeavour to (hew the advantages 

 that would refuli from laying it more together. 



Land, 



