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talents, and fo as to render agriculture as much a 

 fcicnce as the manufacture of cotton, or any other 

 fcience; to ereft the neceffary buildings; to provide 

 for the comfort of the cottager at an eafy expence, 

 by allowing him to fiiare in the cultivation of as 

 much land as will fupply his family with vegetables 

 and milk; to remove every obflacle that flands in the 

 way of a man that has made agriculture his profef- 

 fion; are, in my humble opinion, fure and rational 

 methods of improving this, or any other county. 



Survey of Gloucestershire, p. 23. 



It has already been noticed, that this diftrift has 

 been greatly improved of late years, it is ftill impro- 

 ving, nor is any fpirit of that fort wanting ; but it 

 might be greatly afllfted by the removal of fome of 

 the burthens that the farming w^orld in general la- 

 bours under. Among thefe, the payment of tithes in 

 kind deferves to be mentioned. In the new inclo- 

 fures, this load has been got rid of by giving up a part 

 of the property in lieu of it. One-fifth of the arable, 

 and one-ninth of the pafture, and in fome inflances, 

 two-ninths of one, and one-eighth of the other, has 

 been afked, and agreed to. As the impropriator is 

 exonerated from all expences, except infide fences, 

 the part that he takes is more than equal to a 



fourth 



