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CHAPTER THE THIRD. 



pasture* 



X H E iflands bordering upon the fea coafls, (Merfea- 

 excepted) and the lands which have been produced by, and 

 embanked at different periods from the fea, were formerly 

 under pallure, but of late years a confiderable portion of them 

 have been brought under the plough. A ftate of pafturage 

 is unqueftionably bed fuited to thefe lands, particularly after 

 they have been properly improved and brought to a good 

 herbage. In that ftate they would be mod profitably em- 

 ployed in grazing flieep and cattle, were it not for an incon- 

 venience which they all labour under, in the want of a con- 

 flant fupply of wholefome water. With regard to fuch of 

 thefe lands as are appropriated to tillage, the pradlice of 

 exhaufting them before they are again laid into paflure and 

 grazing ground, ought carefully to be avoided ; yet in all 

 cafes where the rough and uncultivated marfhes have been 

 previoufly chalked, they fhould be kept in occafional motion 

 with the plough for three or four years, and then laid down for 

 permanent paflure : but where this indulgence may not be 

 allowed by the landlord, the journal at Toolefbury ftates, 

 that at a moderate expence, a very confiderable improve- 

 ment may be made in fuch marflies, by removing the ants 

 hills into the rills and low places. The waterwithout injury 



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