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ftones; none of thefe lands, however, are totally 

 unproduaive. Inclofures would do much; induftry 

 and due attention to the natural produce, and what 

 has been cultivated on fimilar foils in other places 

 would do more. Nature is a wife counfellor, and 

 thofe who follow her advice can, with the aid of art 

 and obfervation, do wonders in agriculture. 



Survey of Bedfordshire, p. 26. 



^ BY MR. THOM.^S STONE. 



Of late years feveral common fields have beeit 

 inclofed, but fuch parifhes have not been felefted for 

 that purpofe, with a direft view to improved agri- 

 culture; but in feveral inftances, inclofures have been 

 made of fome of thofe common fields, of which im- 

 provement is the leafl certain, being a thin flaple of 

 foil upon very ftrong, loamy, and clayey land, whilfl 

 in feveral inftances, the fame proprietors of fuch 

 common fields were alfo proprietors, or much inte- 

 refted in the improvement of other open common 

 field pariflies, of mixed foil, and light loamy natures, 

 the nnprovement of which, by means of inclofing,' 

 would have been certain. 



I mufl confefs myfelf to be at a lofs to account 

 for this extraordinary delay of publick and private 

 benefit ; and I can only further obferve upon it, that 



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