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improvement by warping, that it merits particular 

 attention. His farm, of 212 acres, is all warped; and 

 to shew the immense importance of the improvement, 

 it would be necessary only to mention, that he gave 

 111. an acre for the land, and would not now take 

 701. an acre; he thinks it worth 801. and some 

 even lOOl.: not that it would sell so high at pre- 

 sent ; yet his whole expence of sluices, cuts, banks, 

 &c. did not exceed 25001. or 121. per acre; from 

 which, however, to continue the account, 15001. 

 may be deducted, as a neighbour below him offers 

 5l. an acre for the use of his sluice and main cut, 

 to warp 3OO acres, which will reduce Mr. Webster's 

 expence to 10001. or about 5l. an acre. Take it, 

 however, at the highest, 121. and add 111. the pur- 

 chase, together 231. an acre; if he can sell at 701. 

 it is 5Ql. per acre profit. This is prodigious, and 

 sufficient to prove that warping exceeds all other 

 improvements. He began only four years ago. 

 He has warped to various depths, 1 8 inches, two 

 ieet, two feet and a half, &c. He has some that, 

 before warping, was moor-land, worth only Is. 6d. 

 per acre, now as good as the best. Some of it would 

 lett at 5l. for flax or potatoes; and the whole at 50s. 

 He has 20 acres that he warped three feet deep, be- 

 tween the beginning of June and the end of Septem- 

 ber, and 18 acres, part of which is three feet and a 

 half deep. He has applied it on stubbles in autumn, 

 by way of manuring ; for it should be noted, as a 

 vast advantage in this species of improvement, that 

 it is renewable at any time : were it possible to wear 



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