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a bull, or three pounds for a ram; yet notwithstanding this general 

 neglect, many are accustomed to sell their home bred team of four 

 oxen, when fat, for one hundred pounds ; and sheep in great abun- 

 dance, th.it weigh from twenty to thirty pounds per quarter. ; The 

 elevated corn lands were formerly in open common fields, but every 

 effort has been made to divide and inclose them; the tenure how- 

 ever (great part being under the see of Wells, and other churches, 

 under charity endowments, and under queen Anne's bounty) has 

 operated as a check to the necessary exchanges. None of these 

 common field lands will let for more than fifteen shillings per acre;, 

 whereas if inclosed they would let for twenty-five shillings. 

 Course of crops. 1. Fallow. 2. Wheat. 3. Beans or peas* 



PrJCe of Labor. 

 In the summer season, one shilling per day, with meat and drink ; 

 in the wittier, one shilling and two-pence per day, with five pints 

 of cyder. Labourers at task work will earn from two ^to three 

 shillings per day. 



Paring and Burning unknown. 



Price of provisions something less than in the north east district 

 of the county. 



The low lands are badly wooded, and planting in general shame- 

 fully neglected, particularly a ver:>- profitable part of it, w'«, the 

 elm and the willow, both of which thrive in this soil, and the lat- 

 ter is much wanted for the purposes of the fishermen. 



The turnpike roads are nearly in a sta!;e of perfection, which all 

 travellers passing from Cross to Bridgwater will acknowledge. 

 The paroclv'al in a state of improvement, but much must still be 

 done to render a journey through this country comfortable or 

 pleasing. 



The oM fefm -homes are ill constructed and improperly situated, 

 but the new ones are much improved in point of uniformity; regu- 

 larity, and convenience. 



The rack rent leases are generally for seven years, and the cove* 

 ftattts confine the quantity of land in actual tillage; the number of 

 crops, the mode of seeding, to spend the produce on the premises, 

 to sell no hay, not to plough the meadow or pasture land, not to 

 relet without consent and for want of assets to repeater. 



Though 



