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ried on upon a much larger fcale : And, in 

 fhort, the whole management better, and 

 more fpirited. 



With the other clafs, this is not the 

 cafe : The grand article of their agricul- 

 ture is the improvement of moors ; and a 

 viler or more flovenly hufbandry than theirs, 

 in this branch, can no where be found. 

 The ploughing up waftes, without a pre- 

 vious inclofure, and breaking up the deep- 

 eft foils, without paring and burning ; — 

 the fowing two, three, and even four crops 

 cf corn running, upon a ploughing up, and 

 liming ; = — the leaving the exhaufted foil 

 to turf itfelf, in fome places, and only 

 fcattering a little ray grafs in others; — the 

 keeping 8 and 10,000 fheep, and ne- 

 ver folding: — iVU thefe are ftrokes of bar- 

 barifm, which tend to damp and even 

 extinguifh the fpirit of improvement, from 

 the infallible want of fuccefs, and to the 

 leaving a country, after what is here called 

 improvement- in as miferable and wafte a 

 ilate as before it was begun. 



The occupiers of large farms, who arc 

 confequentlymen of coniiderable fubftance. 

 are, in moil parts- of 'Englandy the greatefl 

 of all improvers \ Nature takes a new face 



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