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torney, and fome glggs in almofl every parifh; but 

 when I remember firft, none of thefe exifted between 

 the two market-towns of Bi-idgwater and Axbridge. 

 In Burnham, we had, when I was a boy, but two 

 tea-kettles, and no watch. In the adjoining pariflaes 

 of Berrow and Brean, there were -neither the one 

 or the other. 



To return to my fubjecl : I proceed to explain my 

 fecond valuation table, numbered from one to nine, 

 as hereinbefore dated. 



No. I. in the quality column, reprefents in my 

 field-book the firft or bed fort of paflure, and by it 

 Imean the old rich grazing land long fince in its 

 higheft degree of culture, and generally confifts of 

 large pieces from forty to fixty acres each, adjoining 

 to fome river, village, or turnpike-road. This fort 

 of land may be called paflure in perfection, for it is 

 fo rich that no agricultural art can ever make it pro- 

 duce grafs of fuperior quality, and equal in quantity; 

 for if the quantity be increafed by force in imitation 

 of a hot-bed, the herbage will have a larger bulk, 

 and for that reafon be inferior in quality. The far- 

 mer's fkill cannot therefore add to the richnefs of 

 this paflure, for if it could I fliould not call it the 

 firfl fort. Neither can it be made worfe by any aft 

 of the occupier, if kept properly drained ; for fhould 

 he bring it into feconds by foul feeding and negleft- 

 ing to deflroy the thiflles and weeds, a fubfequent 

 tenant, by cutting the thiflles in an early flate, root- 

 ing 



