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abounds with excellent lime-stone, and the coal-pits are only a 

 few miles distant. 



Lansdown comprehends nearly 3000 acres; but as the soil is 

 thin, and the surface perfectly smooth, and remarkable for its 

 excellence in feeding small sheep, to which it imparts a delicate 

 flavour, it might not be prudent to break it up, especially as it 

 affords a luxurious and beautiful ride to the sojourners in Bath. 



Inclosing has been of long standing in most of these parts, Many 

 have exemplified an advance of rent more than two thirds. The 

 produce in many instances has been of wheat 30 bushels, barley 40, 

 oates 50, and beans from 30 to 40 per acre. 



Increase of population in proportion. 



SIZE and NATURE of INCLOSURES various. 



Nature of fencing : quick hedges, with trees at unequal dis- 

 tances. And, where stones are easily got and lie in a flat bed 

 stone walls, without cement, are built ; two feet wide at the 

 bottom, eighteen inches at the top, and five feet high : the total 

 cost of which wall is about one shilling per yard running nieasure. 



I shall bring forward a comparative view of these walls with 

 quick hedges, when I come to treat of the inclosures on Mendip 

 Hills. 



The rate of wages in hay and corn harvest is about nine shillings 

 per week, with dinner and beer; other parts jof the year about 

 seven shillings, with small beer or cyder. 



Time of labour in the summer from six to six, in the winter 

 from day light till it is dark. 



Not so much attention has been paid to the draining of land as 

 the object undoubtedly requires ; but in some cases, where in- 

 closures have been accompanied with a weeping surface, <*reat 

 improvements have been made by stone draining. The acclivities 

 from the vales are for the most part of this quality and complexion, 

 and if the springs, which issue from the sides of the hills, were 

 taken off at their head by judicious drains, and diverted into a 

 proper channel, the value of the land would be risen at least one 

 third. 



Paring and burning but little in use. 



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