8 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



As to the fmaller towns and villages, I have 

 confidered them partly from a general average of 

 houfes, and partly in proportion to the number 

 of cultivated acres of land ; and though calcula- 

 tions of this kind mud not be looked on as accu- 

 rate, I confider the whole number of people in 

 the county to be about 2 20,000 (c). 



Jf O T E S. 



[a] Two commentators are to be noticed here, Sir Thomas 

 Beevor and the Rev. Mr. Howlett, Vicar of Dunmow, in 

 Effex — The former fays " by Templeman's Survey of the 

 "Globe fa book, of great authority) Norfolk is 57 miles in 

 *' length and 35 in breadth, containing 1426 fquare miles." — If 

 Templeman meant, as I do, the mean length and breadihj 

 the beft way, I prefume, of afcertaining the content fought 

 for, he muft be in an error, for 57, multiplied by 35, will 

 give 1995 miles — The latter fays " from a bare infpe&ion of 

 the maps of England, Norfolk is more extenfive than Effex, 

 and yet that is eftimated at 1,240,000 acres, and I believe 

 that eftimate is very near the truth." — I truft that it will not 

 imply, that my eftimate for Norfolk is erroneous, becaufe Mr. 

 Howlett thinks that of Effex is true. — The fcale by which a 

 kingdom is laid down cannot be depended upon for the ad- 

 meafurement of a county. — Suffice it, that I have deduced my 

 calculation, as I have before obferved, from the beft maps 

 hitherto publifhed, and from twenty-fix years acquaintance 

 with the county : and the public, muft decide to which ftate- 

 rnent molt credit is due. 



0) Sir 



