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advanced in a degree which no other event whatever 

 could fecure. The magnitude- and importance of 

 this defign cannot be underftood, without difcover- 

 ing the extent of thefe wades, which will, without 

 doubt, be efFefted by means of the furveys going on 

 in every part of the kingdom. 



I have calculated from much information, of dif- 

 ferent kinds ; and from comparing and combining 

 various data, conclude, that there are in Suffolk 

 waftes to the amount of nearly, perhaps quite, 

 100,000 acres, or one-eighth part of the whole ; 

 comprehended under the terms flieep-walk, common, 

 warren, &c. 



It is, however, to be noted, that none of thefe 

 are, firiiftly fpeaking, abfolutely "juajie, if by that 

 term is underflood land yielding nothing : I include 

 all lands, uncultivated, which w'ould admit of a very 

 great improvement, not always profitably to the 

 tenant (who may on a fmall capital, make a great 

 intereft per cent, by a warren, for inilance) but in 

 every cafe to the publick. 



Commons fed bare may feem to yield a confiderable 

 produce, but there is often a great deception in it; 

 the cattle and flieep fliould be fallowed through the 

 winter, and whenever it is found that there is no 

 adequate winter provifion, fo often the cafe with 

 poor men's ftock, there are large deductions to be 

 jnade from the apparent produce of the fumraer. 



Survey 



