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Survey of Surry, p. 7. 



BY MESSRS. MALCOLM. 



Will it not then be a matter of furprife, that at 

 the clofe of the feventeenth century, there fliall be 

 found, in a county like this, commons and waftes of 

 the magnitude of 96,000 acres; the much greater 

 part of which, if not the whole, capable of being 

 made fubfervient to the purpofes of agriculture, and 

 thereby enabling us to fupply thofe foreign markets, 

 that Hand in need of it, with that fuperabundance 

 which, to our fliame be it fpoken, we draw at this 

 time from Flanders, Holland, and America? 



Survey of Sussex, p. 95, 



BY THE REV. ARTHUR YOUNG. 



The Wafles of this county on the northern part 

 of it are very extenfive. They are irregularly united 

 by a chain which runs all through this part of SulTex 

 from Hampfliire to Kent, interfered in places by 

 cultivated diftrifts. Out of a portion of land, con- 

 taining 470,360 acres, they occupy no lefs a fpacc 

 than 90,000 acres of land ; and what renders this 

 more fmgular, the whole range from Eaft to Weft, 

 within 35 to 45 miles of the capital; all of which, 

 by a judicious management in the cultivation, might 

 not only be converted to the amazing benefit of the 



county 



