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But the retardment which this circumjiance •will make, 

 when operating ill millions of cafes over a whole king- 

 dom, baffles all attempt at calft/lation. 



To avoid this dreaded evil, extenfive trafts of land 

 are left in England in perpetual grafs, when it is by 

 no means in a condition for yielding the mofl abun- 

 dant produce in that flate. The quantity of bread- 

 corn is thus necefTarily diminifhed, and with it the 

 total amount of food even for beads is curtailed. 

 Nothing can be fo ruinous to agriculture! 



Survey of Northamptonshire, p. 6i» 



The collecting the tithes in kind is very generally 

 complained of, and in pariflies where that mode is 

 adopted, it certainly operates very powerfully againfl 

 the introdu(ftion of improvements in huibandry; 

 while at the fame time it is attended with very dif- 

 agreeable confequences, both in a religious and po- 

 litical view, as it is often the means of creating fuch 

 divifions between the clergyman and his parifhioners, 

 as render the religious inflruftions of the former of 

 Jittle avail, while it loofens that chain of intercourfe 

 and connection, which it is confidered of fo much im- 

 portance to keep united. It has happened (though, 

 to the credit of the clergy of this diflriCl be it faid, 

 the inflances are very rare) where the tithes have 



been 



