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The fubflance of .which table, it may here be proper to 

 recapitulate, and is as follows, viz. 



That the average rent of the enclofecl arable land through 

 the county is 14s. 8d. That of the open field los, 2d. confe- 

 quently a difference of 4s. 6d. per acre between the common 

 field land, and that which is held in feveralty. That the 

 average rent of the prime pafture ground is 23s. 2d. making 

 a difference of 9s. i|d, per acre between the paflure land of 

 the firfl, and that of the fecond quality. That the rough and 

 unimproved paftures are rented on an average through the 

 county at 6s. lod. per acre. That the embanked marfh 

 ground averages 15s. 7|d. per acre; and that there are 

 4,600 acres of fait marfh, which at this time, may be con- 

 veniently enclofed from the fea, and gradually improved to 

 an equal value. That the meadows in feveralty average 

 22s. lod. and thofe that are half-yearly 25s. 8d. leaving a 

 difference of 2s. lod. per acre, which is by no means propor- 

 tioned to the fuperior quality of the latter land. That the 

 arable and grafs land through the county, when let in farms 

 together, and without diftin6lion of price, equals 14s. 6|-d. 

 per acre. That acres of hop land average 31s. per 



acre. That the undergrowth of the woodlands, cut once 

 in thirteen years, averages through the county at the flub 

 5I. IIS. 6|d. per acre. That there are 370 acres of thicks 

 or forell land, which, ,by enclofure, may be improved 

 I2s 6d. per acre. That there are, fay, 10,000 acres of the 

 fame defcription of land, not producing, or being favourable 

 to the growth of oak or other valuable timber, in the forefls 

 of Epping and Henhault, at prefent eflimated to produce 

 5s. 8|d. per acre, but which, in a flate of enclofure for 

 cultivation, might be readily augmented to 20s. per acre : 

 and finally, that there are 14,237 acres of wafte common 

 land, which being enclofed, would immediately be increafed 



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