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(b low, that the water may fun out of every 

 furrow acrofs it into the ditch. In fome 

 parts of EJJeX) particularly between Brain- 

 tree and Thaxftead and Hockeril, they dig 

 away their borders in this manner, and 

 find great advantages in the practice : If 

 you view a farm in that country that has 

 been in the hands of a floven, you will be 

 fhewn the high grafs borders, as an ad- 

 vantage to the new tenant in the manur- 

 ing way. 



I have mentioned this covenant not as 

 one of capital importance, but to remind 

 the farmer to requeft, that the old barbarous 

 tenure may be left out of his leafe. 



Note, however, that when I condemn 

 this covenant, I do not plead for the tenant 

 having a liberty of ploughing into the hedge, 

 fo as the landlord mall not be able to take 

 a ride round his own fields : there is no- 

 thing reafonable in that : only that he 

 may dig them up, and carry the earth on to 

 the land ; after which, he mould fow them 

 with hay feeds, and by the time a good 

 turf is come, it will be proper to repeat the 

 ftme work : But whether in grafs or not, 

 the fpace to be left clear from the plough. 



IV. 



