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respects of sound understanding, ridicule such speculations as alto= 

 gether visionary, and absurd. 



Were it even admitted that the adventurers in these schemes, 

 are for the most part sufferers, yet it cannot be denied that the 

 community is benefited, inasmuch as the land is made to produce 

 ten times as much as it did in its primitive state ; and the amount 

 of labor is nothing 'but an addition to the capital stock of the 

 nation. 



Notwithstanding these improvements on the forest of which we 

 are now treating, have been carried on with unabating ardor and 

 activity, yet it will appear by the following statement, that much is 

 left to be done. 



Inclosed 

 Parishes 



Leigh . . . 



Ashwick . . 



Cranmoor, &c. 



Charterhouse . 



Hay den . . 



Ubly . . . 



Blagdon 



Doulting and Stoke 



Shepton . . . 



Shuters Bottom . 



Westbury 



West Hartry 



Compton Martin 



Blagdon . . . 



Old Down . . 



Dinder and Croscomb 800 



Chilcot and Horrington 800 



Wells .... 2800 



Acres 

 100 



350 



300 



1000 



400 



95° 

 1000 

 800 

 800 

 600 



35o 

 900 



700 



800 



100 



TJn 'in 'closed 



Parishes Acres 



Chew ton .... 2000 



East Hartry . . . 1100 



Priddy and Stoke . . 1200 



Cheddar 2^00 



Axbridge .... 

 Compton Bishop 

 Winscomb and Shipham 

 Rowboro' and Churchill 

 Berrington . . . 



Charter House . . . 

 Banwell, Lockstone, 

 Curston, Locking, 

 and Hutton . . . 



} 



300 



500 



800 



1000 



1000 



35° 

 800 



1 3»55o 



n>550 



The 



