( i85 ) 



A general Jiatemtnt of the improvement y which by enclofing and 

 laying into Jeve rally, may be annually made on the prefent rent 

 or value of the open common fields and wafle landsy in this 

 County. 



By a reference to the minutes taken on the furvey, it 

 appears, that the arable land in about forty parilhes 

 in the county, lies • ery much in open common 

 fields ; and which, in point of quantity, is found 

 to average about 1,200 acres per parilh. This 

 amounts in the whole to 48,000 acres ; the ex- 

 cefs whereof in the annual rent or value from 

 enclofure and laying into leveralty, would ac- 

 cording to the general average table, be 4s. 6d. per 

 acre, and confequently form an annually increafed 

 income or revenue of----- - -- 10,801 o o 



By enclofing or embanking from the fea 4,600 acres 

 of fait rnarfh, an acquifition to that extent wo ild 

 be made to the national territory, and yield to the 

 individual owners-annually 15s. 6d. per acre,equal to 3,565 00 



By enclofing for cultivation 10,370 acres of thicks or 

 foreft lands, unfit for the growth of oak timber, 

 thereby improving its rent or annual value 1 2s. 6d. 

 per acre 6,481 5 o 



By enclofing and laying into feveralty 14,237 acres of 

 wafle or common land, thereby increafing its 

 annual rent or value iis. 4d. per acre, i^quals - 5,067 12 8 



Exclufive of the improvement that may be made upon the rough 

 and coarfe marflies and pafture land. The extent of which, not 

 being poflible to be afcertained, no account can here be ftated of 

 the value of their improvement, which however mufi: be very 

 eonfiderable. 



A a The 



