CHAPTER XVI. 



THE MISMANAGEMENT OP LANDED PEOPEETY. 



For a general view of tlie husbandry of the period many of 

 the statistics gleaned by Young in his three English tours ^ 

 are sufficiently accurate. For any important details we shall 

 have to search the various Reports sent to the Board of Agri- 

 culture some twenty years later. 



The country thus closely scrutinised (not merely visited) 

 by Young must have comprised an area little short of 

 150,0CX) acres. In his Northern tour alone he visited some 

 70,000 acres which composed two hundred and fifty separate 

 tenancies. In his Eastern tour he examined some 50,000 

 more acres, and from the Reports of these two tours we shall 

 now give a few interesting details. 



Statistics op Young's Northern and Eastern Tours Compared. 



1 Six Weeks^ Tour through the Southern Counties of England and 

 Wales, 1767; Six Months' Tour through the North of England, 1768; and 

 Farmer's Tour through the East of England, 1770. 



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