nips are fown there, and very little grafs, the 

 country muft gradually be ruined. And if 

 its improvement fliould hereafter be attempt- 

 ed, it will be more difficult and expenfive to 

 bring it into good order than it was at firft. 

 My opinion on this fubjeci is confirmed by 

 Mr Batchelor. Vide Marfhall, 



P. 273. " Minute 118. Mr Batchelor of 

 " Bradftone, (a fenilble intelligent farmer, 

 " at whofe houfe I flept), fays, that twenty 

 " or thirty years ago, he never could get 

 " (lock enough for his turnips. He has fi- 



nifhed forty or fifty bullocks in a year ; 



now he does not know how to buy few e- 



nough, and does riot finifh more than 



twenty or thirty : The roots do not come 

 " to any fize, and have no " tack" or proof 

 " in them." 



Mr Marfhall alfo obferves, vol. i, p. 7. 

 That fome gentlemen now will grant only 

 a feven year's leafe ; which muft prevent any 

 new improvement, and confequently, ruin 

 die foil, and diminish the produce. 



Befides thefe caufes already enumerated, 

 there are, however, others by which agricul- 

 ture is either diredly or indiredlly injured. 

 It is not, at firft view, eafy to conceive how 



much 



