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No. IX. or the ninth and lafl divifion of quality, 

 comprehends every fpecies of bad land we have upon 

 the flat. It is particularly applicable to poor com- 

 mon meads, common fields, intermixed property, or 

 thofe lands injured by moles, ants, or flooded, or 

 even injured by defign. In fliort, it includes all the 

 Several forts of bad land of every defcription, that 

 lies lower than high-water mark, and ought not to 

 be valued in its prefent fituation at more than il. los. 

 per acre. 



It is to be obferved, that the diflferent valuations 

 of the above nine different qualities of land, is only 

 applicable to the ftatute acre exclufive of fences, 

 which is commonly twenty per cent, in advance upon 

 the cufl;omary acres,, for eflates upon an average 

 called one hundred acres feldom meafure more than 

 fourfcore. 



Upon fome of thefe four laft claflTes of improve- 

 able land, the induftrious farmer can make two blades 

 of grafs grow in future where only one grows at pre- 

 fent, provided he will follow the dire£lions I have 

 already communicated to you in my eflay upon the 

 improvement of meado\y land, printed in your fifth 

 volume.f As the firfl: five claflTes of pafl:ure cannot, 

 as fuch, be brought into a lower ftate of culture 

 from any mifbehaviour of the tenant, fo there is no 

 neceflSty of any extraordmary expence in the im- 

 provement of it. 



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