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certainly foon carry the improvement of them: in 

 their prefent (late, little or no benefit is derived to 

 any perfon whatever, intitled either to common, or 

 inter-common, from the ufe of them. By an afl of 

 parliament paffed about twenty years ago, for di- 

 viding Ehet-Moor, and for extinguifhing all right of 

 common in certain inclofed inter-common lands, it was 

 enafted, that the lands fubje£l to intercommon Ihall 

 be difcharged therefrom, on the proprietors thereof 

 paying an equivalent, to be afcertained by the com- 

 miflioners under the faid aft. Their adjudications 

 were executed without any difEculty, and with ge- 

 neral approbation. 



Survey of the North-Riding of Yorkshire, 



p. 120.-— DY MR. TUKE, JUN. 



Though this riding poffefTes fome extenllve open 

 arable fields, yet upon the whole the quantity is not 

 large, and they are in fome degree annually leffening 

 by inclofures under afts of parliament, and would 

 lefTen flill more rapidly, but for the great expence 

 of obtaining thofe afts. 



The improvements made upon open fields, and 

 waftes after inclofure, has been very great, princi- 

 pally by the adoption of the turnip and clover huf- 

 bandry; and by the cultivation of artificial grafles, 

 the (lock lias been greatly increufcd in numbers, and 



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