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ture, amount to 130,000 acres, and being of dilTe- 

 rent qualities, are capable of various improvements; 

 much may be converted into arable, much into paf- 

 ture, much into v^ood-land ; and even of the mofl'es, 

 it wotild be found that many might be drained, and 

 the reft not left unufeful for the produftion of peat. 

 Lime, of an excellent quality, is at hand ; and altho' 

 the frequency of heavy (liowers in the Weflern 

 parts, may endanger corn by lodging it, &c. yet the 

 culture of rape, turnips, and potatoes, for all of 

 which in many parts it is well adapted, would 

 produce immediate profit, and prepare the land for 

 being laid down to permanent grafs. Within the 

 lafl thirty years, large quantities of wafVe lands in 

 the lower parts of the county have been inclofedj 

 and it is certain that the refulting advantages, in 

 regard to improvement in quantity and quality of 

 produce, {lock, rent, and increafe of population, 

 have been, and continue to be very confiderable. It 

 is impolTible to treat this fubje^t of waftes, without 

 lamenting that in fome of the rich parts of the county, 

 particularly in the neighbourhood of the capital of 

 it, large quantities of land fliould flill lie totally de- 

 prived of the benefit of cultivation, in commons; 

 and that adjacent inclofiires, by being fubjeift to the 

 perverfe cuflom of inter-common, be prevented from 

 that degree of fertilization to which the eafy oppor- 

 tunity of procuring manure, in mod cafes, would 



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