250 WOLD S. 20. 



grafs, they are many of them, for a courfe of 

 years, worth five times that rent as arable 

 Und. 



No wonder landed gentlemen are tenacious 

 of thefe old grafslands. They are treafuries, 

 vrhofe keys they would be blameable in deli- 

 vering up, without a fuitable confederation. 

 Bat they are {till more culpable in obftinate- 

 ly depriving themfelves and the community 

 of the ufe of them. The fined farm upon 

 the Wolds js {hamefully cramped, through 

 an ill-judged prohibition from breaking up 

 the fheep-walks, of which it principally con- 

 iiiis. The tenant cannot winter his fheep 

 upon the farm. He has not a fufficiency of 

 arable land to grow turneps in proportion to 

 his fummer feed. It is not paying twenty- 

 pounds a-weck far {beep-feed which confi- 

 tures the evil in this cafe; but the circum- 

 jftance of having his flocks (battered about 

 the country, perhaps ten or fifteen miles 

 from his farm, during the winter months, 



A general permiiTion for breaking up can 

 only be dictated by folly or ncceffity. A due 

 rtijan is ail that is at ^refsni requifite, 



V. REMOVAL:. 



