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moiety of the whole, being out of the queflion, who 

 will contend that we ought not to plant hedges upon 

 the remaining five forts? Indeed, whatever argu- 

 ments can be advanced againft it, may be equally 

 applied againft planting in general ; but the advan- 

 tages refulting from it, in every point of view, have 

 been fo fully experienced, that they need not to be 

 infifted on. 



If you alk me whether a quality man is not liable 

 to be deceived in the foil? I anfwer yes, very much 

 fo if a ftrangerj but if bred amongft us, he will 

 never be fo far deceived as to raife the third clafs of 

 land into pafture of the firft quality, or lower it into 

 fifths ; for if he have a doubt, and err, it is only one 

 degree.f Whereas, if in a grafs-growing feafon, in 

 June, you fliew a piece of winter-hayned land, dif- 

 tinguiflied zs^ftbs, to a London land-tajler, it is two 

 to one againft him that he confiders it as pafture of 

 the firft quality, and errs in favour of the land twenty 

 fliillings per acre ; but if the fame piece be fed bare 



f In flat oppofitlon to this dodlrine, the Commiflioners for incloraig 

 Mark-Moor, a(fting as qualhj-Mien, miflook a low part of it to fuch a 

 great degree, as to allot three acres, wanting fifteen perches, to a fingle 

 individual common ; when tlie major part of the other allotments were 

 only one acre and thirty-nine perches. By this grofs miftake, the 

 low common (as the belt land) was then, and is now, worth one hun- 

 dred pounds more than any other common in that extenfive inclofure. 

 An error exceeding two hundred per cent.! 



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