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Imder their hands ; whole counties drb 

 converted at once from defarts, into finely 

 tultivated countries : But here we meet 

 with no improvements that deferve the 

 name ; nothing lafting ; three or four to- 

 lerable crops, and then the land left as de- 

 folate as ever, in the trtte fpirit of a little 

 louzy farmer of 20 /. a year. Unworthy 

 thofe who occupy as many hundreds ! 



While moors are thus improved^ I do not 

 inuch wonder 'at feeing fo much wafte land 

 in Northumberland : But furely the land- 

 lords are ftrangely remifs, in not introdu- 

 cing better cuftoms ; letting no tracks 

 without their being inclofed, and retrain- 

 ing their tenants from exhauiling the foil 

 by continued crops ; obliging them^ ajt the 

 fame time, to lay it down to grafs, in a 

 given manner : But this muft be done by 

 pradifing fuch methods thcmfelvesj that 

 the fuccefs may juftify the propofal : If 

 the farmers of the country are, neverthe- 

 lefs, backward in following fuch examples, 

 men of large eflates can well afford the 

 importation of others, from counties whofe 

 cultivators are more informed. 



It is very melancholy to ride through 

 fuch vaftly exteniive tracks of uncultivated 



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