2 3 . Y O R 1C S H I R E. 2$ 7 



fortunes have been funk, and fome larger 

 ones have been injured. I have not come at 

 any thing like proof of one infl.mcc in which 

 the improvement has been adequate to the 

 txpence. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. From thefe pre- 

 mifes we may fafely infer, that the two hun- 

 dred thoufand acres of land under notice arc 

 unimproveable ; or that the attempts at im- 

 provement which have hicherto been made 

 have been ill conducted ; or that the prin- 

 ciple of improvement has hitherto been er- 

 roneous. 



Unprepared as I am with felf- practice in 

 the cultivation of thefe waftes, it would be 

 rafhnefs in me to dictate a general plan of 

 improvement ; but having fome general 

 knowledge of improvements of this nature, 

 and having beftowed fome conliderable lhare 

 of obfervation and attention on the Diftrict 

 under confideration, it might be wrong to 

 fupprefs the reflections which have occurred 

 to me refpecting its improvement. In a king- 

 dom whofe limits are not extenfive, two hun- 

 dred thoufand acres of furface becomes an 

 object of national importance j and on whe- 

 ther 



