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own, and one I hired for several years. It is se- 

 vere work, and the second year I lost nine horses, 

 attributed to feeding on pea-straw from the new 

 broken heath, a circumstance that deserves the 

 attention of improvers. 



" In the eleventh year of my lease I applied to 

 my landlord for a renewal ; on which the farm 

 was valued again by Mr. Hare, the surveyor at 

 Peterborough, and I took a fresh lease of 15 

 years, to commence at the termination of my old 

 one, at the rent of 4001. 

 " I immediately clayed and broke up 200 a< 

 more, at 100 loads an acre, 40 bushels per load, 

 inclosing all with quick hedges, and ditches five- 

 feet wide and 4 feet deep ; after this I improved 

 100 acres more in the same manner. 

 " In the two leases of 28 years I clayed or marled 

 820 acres ; and I have clayed or marled so much 

 over the second time, at 70 loads an acre, that 

 the quantity I have carried in all, is wry little 

 short of 140,000 loads. 



" Upon taking a third lease, I was, in I7()v 

 particularly steady to this work, and in -1() \u, 

 and three days carried 1 1,275 cubical yards, pay- 

 ing by measure of pits, and not by loads, which 

 were filled and spread by four men and a bov, 

 and carted by six horses and two tumbrils. 

 " In this business of carrying clay or marie I 

 have pradtised hand-burrowing : the men can 

 make good earnings at lOd. per yard, wheeling 

 it 30 rod ; and down to 7cl, a yard at shorter dis- 



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