fcen many farms fo interfered with thefe 

 nuifances, as to reduce the land abfolutely 

 one half in value. The inconveniences 

 prefent themfelves by thoufands. 



The fields acrofs which roads lead are 

 carted up from fide to fide, though it be 

 only a farm or two that has a right of paf- 

 fing. The fellows, who drive their teams, 

 have no confideration for your fields ; they 

 feek nothing but the plainer!, fmootheft 

 track, and confequently do your land, every 

 time they go over it, frefh damage. If it 

 is pafture-ground, and the road not con- 

 fined to one track by fences, it can never 

 be mown ; but, whether it is proper or 

 not, muft always be fed. If it is arable 

 land, the mifchief is yet greater ; for the 

 corn is not only deftroyed as it grows, but 

 the foil fo cut up and poached in winter, 

 that it is a long time after they vary their 

 track before it will yield any profitable pro- 

 duce; confequently, a great breadth of land 

 is always in deftrudtion. I appeal to all 

 thofe who have the plague of unconfined 

 roads through their farms, whether I have 

 exaggerated any one particular. If fuch 

 $n one runs a mile through a farm, it in- 

 evitably 



