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CHAP. VIII. 



Of thejlate of the public roads^ and dijlance 

 from market. 



THIS is another objed: too often over- 

 looked by farmers, and yet they are 

 the perfons who, moft of all others, fuffer 

 from bad roads and long carriage. It is 

 no matter of wonder that farmers are not 

 readily at the expence of mending roads 

 when bad, but it is very aftonifhing that 

 they will hire farms fituated in the midft of 

 execrable ones, when they might, with as 

 little trouble, fix themfelves in good ones. 



The ill confequences of bad roads are 

 numerous, and of the worft kind; they 

 inevitably occafion a great extraordinary 

 annual expence, nay, a monthly one ; for 

 every time the waggons go out with corn, 

 wood, hay, ftraw, or to fetch manure of 

 any kind, the horfes are proportionably 

 weakened and jaded ; they mufl be fed ac- 

 cordingly ; the waggon and harnefs are for 

 ever coming in pieces, and constantly 

 wearing out. Thefe expences are regular, 



and 



