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prcfervation ; and confidering all the exifting circum* 

 fiances of our country, it is clear, upon the very- 

 face of things, that one principal {lep towards at- 

 taining this end, would be the inclofmg of Avaftes, 

 inclofmg the common fields, and removing thofe ob- 

 flacles which clog the operations of the farmer. 



Survey of the County of Cambridge, p. 173. 



BY MR. CHARLES VANCeUVER. 



By inclofures I underftand the wajies, for which 

 afts of parliament have been obtained for authority 

 to inclofe and divide them. Thefe in this county 

 have confided of interior commons and wafles of 

 the different parifhes, whereon right of commoning 

 was veiled in the inhabitants of the ancient mef- 

 •fuao-es, &c. alfo of fait marflies, whereon the like 

 rieht has been exercifed. Three inclofures within 

 ten miles of us, Sutton, Gedney, ana Tidd St. Mary's, 

 of the former defcription, have taken place in the 

 courfe of the laft four or five years; the firfl of 

 about 3300 acres; and two of the latter defcription, 

 much nearer us — Walpole and Terrington falt- 

 marflies; the firfl: confiiling of about 1600 acres, 

 and the laft, about 1000 acres. To furnifli an idea 

 of the quality of thefe lands, I will (late what I 

 fuppofe the average rem of them : 



Of 



