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ther it is that the experiments which have been made, have not been ju- 

 dicioufly condudted, or that the farmers, from the want of leafes, are pre- 

 vented from expending money in the purchafe of a manure, from which 

 no immediate return can be expeded ; certain it is, that there does not 

 appear any great probability of its being foon introduced into general ufe, 

 without the united exertion of the landlords. 



COMMONS and WASTE LANDS. 



NORTHAMPTON-SHIRE. 



It is only in thofe parifhes in this county 

 which have been inclofed that the lands 

 are held in feveralty. The open field 

 townfliips are held both by proprietors 

 and tenants, in the fame manner as was 

 the praftice at the time they were firft 

 cultivated. And there, what in Scotland 

 is called run-ridge, or run-field, univerlal- 

 ly prevails. To the preceding report re- 

 ference is made to an accoiuit of the man- 

 ner in which the commons and wood- 

 lands are occupied. 



PERTH-SHIRE. 



In this county the lands are all held iil 

 feveralty ; and commons, or what was 

 formerly known by the name of run-> tdge 

 property, is fcarcely known ; even in the 

 rocky and mountainous parts of the 

 country, where the furveyor cannot drag 

 his chain, every proprietor knows the 

 bounds of his own eftate ; and where ar- 

 tificial boundaries cannot be fixed, natu- 

 ral ones, fuch as flreams of waer, or the 

 fummits of mountains, are made ufe of 

 to afcertain the marches. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



The abolition of run-ridge or run-field, may be reckoned the firft dawn of 

 a fpirit for improvements in Agriculture that appeared in Scotland, and 

 which, added to another excellent plan adopted by the landlords, which hasr 

 been already taken notice of, viz, that of granting leafes, accounts \\\ a great 

 mcalure for the very great improvements which have lately taken place 

 in that kingdom ; and it cannot admit of a doubt, that were the open 

 field parifhes in Northamptonftiire divided and inclofed, and the com- 

 mons and woodlands converted into private property, in ihe manner in 

 which the lands in Perthfliire now are, the moft fubftantial improvements 

 would of courfe be introduced ; and the produce of the lands, under fuch 

 fuperior cultivatiuii, as would m that event take place, become greatly 

 mure abundant. 



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