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PRESENT STATE of the COUNTY, in regard 

 to AGRICULTURE, and, the Modes of Manage- 

 ment. 



It has already been ftated, that there are 316 pa- 

 -riflies in the diftricV, 227 of which arc in a ftate of 

 inclofure, and 89 in open field ; beiides which, 

 there are many thoufand acres of woodlands, and a 

 large track of rich valuable land, called the Great 

 Peterborough Fen, in a ilate of commonage ; fo that 

 fuppofing the inclofed part of the county at prefent 

 under the moll approved modes of management, 

 there is above one third of the whole, by no means in 

 the beft ftate of cultivation of which it is fufceptible. 



In defcribing the prefent ftate of the county, it 

 may be proper to clafs it under the five following 

 divifions, viz. old inclofure, new inclofure, open 

 field, commons, and woodlands ; and to give a par- 

 ticular account of the different modes of manage- 

 ment pradifed by the tenants who occupy the lands, 

 under all thefe various divifions. 



Old Inclofures. — Perhaps one half of the inclofed 

 parifties, may be denominated old inclofures, at leaft 

 that proportion may be faid to be occupied as gra- 

 zing farms, which is the ufe to which old inclofed 

 lands in this county is generally applied. 



STOCK and MANAGEMENT of a FARM ufed 

 for BULLOCKS, and SHEEP grazing, or fat- 

 ting for the Butcher. 



One hundred and feventy acres old pafture, 70 

 acres meadow, rent L. 300, poors rates, and other 

 parochial taxes 5 s. 6 d. in the pound of rent, lands 

 exonerated from tithes. 



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