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down to grafs, it is not neceflary here to determine ; 

 ■but it muft be obfervcd, that thefe lands are not at 

 prefent devoted to the mod profitable purpofe to 

 which they might be applied, being in many places 

 greatly over-run with ant-hills, and producing a 

 coarfe and unwholefome fort of herbage. Thefe 

 lands would, no doubt, be made much more pro- 

 dudlive by plowing, artificial manure, and other 

 means of improvement that might be adopted. Two 

 objedions naturally occur in the mind of the land- 

 lord againfl plowing up thefe old inclofures, as they 

 are called: The ift is, That the tenant would re- 

 ceive a great additional advantage by the luxuriant 

 crops of grain which he would reap, and without 

 making any additional acknowledgment to the land- 

 lord ; and the 2d is. The rifk which the landlord runs, 

 that the tenant will not beftovv due pains in laying 

 down the fields again into grafs. But, if the fyftem 

 is a good one, (and the praftice of almofl every 

 other country proves that it is), thefe two difficul- 

 ties may be eafily obviated, as the landlord may 

 ftipulate with the tenant, for an advance of rent 

 during the period when the lands are in the eourfe 

 of. corn-cropping, and he has it completely in his 

 power to punifh the tenant for any adl of impro- 

 priety he may be guilty of, in regard to the man- 

 ner of laying down the lands into grafs. 



The new inclofed lands are in general well mana- 

 ged ; and where the foil is of a reddifli colour, with a 

 fmall mixture of gravel, (of which there is a confider- 

 able extent, particularly towards the middle and 

 upper parts of the county), the rotation of crop- 

 ping pradifed, that of the one half in grafs, and the 

 other half in corn and turnip, feems the bell adapt- 

 ed for keeping it in a high ftate of cultivation, and 

 the alternate eourfe of corn and grafs hulbandry, is 

 probably the moft advantageous that can be intro- 

 duced, both for landlord and tenant ; as, from the 

 great number of flieep which can be kept upon the 



artificial 



