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Section xv. 



THE COMMONS CONSIDERED. 



A HESE lie in all parts of the county, and are 

 very different in their quality. Thofe in the 

 neighbourhood of Wymondham and Attleborough, 

 are equal to the fined land in the county, worth, 

 at lead, twenty fhillings an acre ; being capable of 

 making either good pafture, or producing corn, 

 hemp, or flax. There are other parts which par- 

 take of a wet nature, and fome of a furze and 

 heathy quality ; but they are moft of them worth 

 improving, and all of them capable of producing 

 fomething : and it is a lamentable thing, that thofe 

 large tra&s of land mould be fuffered to remain in 

 their prefent unprofitable itate. The arguments 

 for the continuance of commons in their prefent 

 flate are, in general, fallacious ; and though fpe- 

 cious, are grounded on miilaken principles of hu- 

 manity. The advantage they would be to fociety, 

 if properly cultivated, would be very great, and 



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