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portant article will be found stated as wanting to the inns of 

 Bavaria ; we were a good deal surprised to find a deficiency, 

 or imperfect forms, of this article in many of both the first 

 and second rate inns. We have elsewhere (Vol. V. p. 5'^5.) 

 recommended Downes, and we again do so, both for private 

 and public houses of every description. The best provisions, 

 the most civil treatment, and the most moderate charges, we 

 have invariably now, as before, found at the commercial inns, 

 though they are most deficient in the above respect. One rea- 

 son why second-rate inns do not contain a superior description 

 of accommodation is, that they are seldom frequented by fami- 

 lies ; but as families become poorer, the charges of the first- 

 rate inns will be lowered, or the accommodations of the second- 

 rate inns improved. For public-houses we look forward to 

 very great improvement in every description of accommodation, 

 in consequence of the numerous persons frequentmg them im- 

 proving in worldly circumstances, and becoming more moral 

 and intellectual. We have elsewhere (Vols. V. and VI.) men- 

 tioned that almost every public-house in Wurtemberg and 

 other countries in the south of Germany has a music-room, 

 with a piano, and takes in several newspapers. We do not 

 despair of seeing something similar adopted in this country. 

 What is most wanted, both for public-houses and inns, is a 

 large garden for each, to be cultivated by a professed gar- 

 dener. This would add greatly to the enjoyment of the fre- 

 quenters of such houses, both as it would afford a place of 

 recreation in summer, and would supply, at all seasons, supe- 

 rior vegetables and fruit. The dissemination of improved 

 vegetables and fruits among the poorer classes would thus be 

 greatly promoted ; and we would therefore recommend to all 

 builders of public-houses to join to them a large garden, and 

 to recommend the employment of a professed gardener, and 

 the sale of part of the produce. 



Unenclosed Tracts of Country vi^xo. common, in 1805, in the 

 route through which we have passed; we may give, as instances, 

 the commons of Harrow Weald, Rickmansworth, Bucking- 

 ham, Cheadle, and Buxton ; Delamere Forest, near Chester ; 

 Inglewood Forest, between Penrith and Carlisle ; and a con- 

 siderable tract of country between Annan and Dumfries. All 

 these are now enclosed, and some of them covered with rich 

 crops of grain and thriving plantations ; the very poorest 

 surfaces, such as those of Buxton Heath, and Delamere 

 Forest, are now covered with pasture, enclosed by stone walls, 

 or planted with trees. We do not recollect to have seen a 

 single open common between London and Dumfries. The 

 recently enclosed districts are easily recognised by the riglit 



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