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grubbing, hill-throwing, and removing the clay off 

 the land, would be otherwife incurred in the courfe 

 of common hufbandry. As the mod convincing way 

 of proving to you that retentive clay-lands, poifoned 

 with ftagnant water, and reputed to be worthlefs, 

 are thus to be made by fire, I have one eflate, ftill 

 lying in the midft of a defert belonging to Francis 

 Kingston Galpine, efq; of Blandford, that about 

 twenty years ago was over-run (as his is now) with 

 thorns, furze-buflies, ant-hills, and every unwhol- 

 fome aquatick weed, and then let at 1 9I. per annum, 

 out of which were deducted the taxes and repairs; 

 which eftate having been {vact falivated {\i I may be 

 allowed the expreffion) is now cheap in 60I. a year, 

 and likely in a few years to be worth icol. without 

 dung or any purchafed manure whatever: and I have 

 forty acres of grafs land in another parifli, that is 

 alfo lying in a wildernefs quarter belonging to Sir 

 Henry Mildmay, which I took into hand about a 

 year ago, then let at 1 81. a year, out of which were 

 alfo allov/ed taxes and repairs, and which ufuallj 

 reduced it to 1 2I. a year, that is now made worth at 

 kafl: 50I. a year, without any other help. 1 cannot 

 fpeak more particularly as to the expence, than by fay- 

 ing, that it has never coft me, in any one inftance, more 

 than three pounds per acre; and that I am furelt is 

 the cheapefl: and mofi: lading of all manures, next to 

 marling, (in fome very congenial and particular fitu- 



ations) 



