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A RECAPITULATION 



OF THE 



HINTS FOR IMPROVEMENT, 



ALREADY SUGGESTED in the PRECEDING PAGES; 



WITH SOME 



ADDITIONAL REMARKS. 



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i St. Inclose and cultivate all waste lands susceptible of improvement, 

 and divide and inclose the common fields. 



THE various causes which have operated to retard the progress 

 of this species of improvement, have been so fully stated before, 

 that I shall only add by way of encouragement, that the lands of 

 Mendip Hills inclosed and cultivated in the course of the last thirty 

 or forty years, are now worth between seven and eight thousand 

 pounds per annum, which in their original state did not exceed' 

 fifteen hundred pounds. 



It was naturally expected that so great an accession of arable 

 land, would introduce such a plenty of corn (particularly of oats] 

 in the adjacent markets, as would be accompanied with a propor- 

 tionable diminution in price ; but no such consequences have fol- 

 lowed. The average price of oats for the last twenty years, has not 

 been less than eighteen shillings per quarter, Winchester measure. 

 From this circumstance, some have been foolish enough to ques- 

 tion the presumed advantage, exultingly crying, (( Is not corn 

 dearer than it was before ? Are not the poors rates equally high ? 

 Where then are the happy consequences derived from the measure ? 

 Corn could not have been dearer had no inclosure taken place." 

 Hold ! the price of every article varies according to the plenty, or 

 scarcity in market ,; and if the home supply be not sufficient for the 



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