2i8 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



CHAPTER XV. 



POLITICAL ECONOMY, AS CONNECTED WITH, AND 

 AFFECTING AGRICULTURE. 



SECTION i. 



Roads. 



THE roads of this county are in general allowed to 

 be excellent ; the foil is dry, the country neither flat, 

 nor (haded with hedge-rows, the materials for making 

 them good, and the gentlemen very careful in keeping 

 them in repair, and anxious to have the money granted 

 for them honeftly accounted for. But notwithflanding 

 thefe advantages, many improvements may yet be ad- 

 mitted of and introduced ; the furface of this county is 

 fo various, that to avoid every inequality would be im- 

 partible, and in every cafe not to be wifhed for j but 

 many of the old roads having been laid out, before it 

 was adverted to, that going round a hill was often not 

 defcribing a greater fpace than going over it, the tra- 

 veller is not feldom obliged to climb a fteep afcent, and 



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