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purpofes of improved cultivation. On account of 

 the vicinity to the town, the land might be laid 

 down in pailure, and applied to the fupport of trade 

 and commerce; neverthelefs the inhabitants are under 

 the nccefTuy of travelling over the arable common 

 fields, now let at from 12s. to 18s. per acre, to in- 

 clofed pailure land in other pariflies, at a much 

 greater diftance, and of lefs intrinfick value, where 

 they rent it from 2I. to 3I. per acre; and other in- 

 ftances of a fimilar nature might be adverted to. 



Survey of Buckinghamshire, p. 35. 



BV MESSRS. WM. JAMES AND JACOB MALCOM. 



From the extent of the county, it might have been 

 cxpefted, that a much greater portion of JVaJle La7id 

 would have been met with. It does not, however, 

 appear to be above 6000 acres; a quantity very in- 

 confiderable indeed, compared to what is found in 

 other difiricfts. But even this quantity is fufficient 

 to dcferve an attention towards the inclofmg, culti- 

 vating, and planting thereof; as it may be made to 

 fupply wood for fuel, for timber, &c. or, where 

 more agreeable, for arable. But as the former ap- 

 pears at prefcnt of more confequence than the latter, 

 Inafmuch as the country every where falls fliort of 

 a due fucceffion of timber, and that ncceffary national 

 article requiring a long time to arrive at a ftate for 



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