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baked, the refult of which was, " that the crops 

 " upon the pared and burnt land, after the firft 

 " two or three years, kept gradually growing worfe, 

 " and upon the ploughed part, the crops, for fome 

 " years, grew better, and afterwards were viubly 

 " fuoerior to the pared and burnt land.*' 



Mr. Vancouver, for Cambridgefhire, obferves, 

 that "in the King'*, the Queen's, and other couii- 

 " ties in Ireland, where paring and burning the 

 " thin high lands have been unfortunately prac- 

 " tifed, extenfive and naturally fruitful tracls have 

 " been reduced to the lowelt and mod exhaufted 

 " flate of barrennefs and poverty, and as the like 

 " effeels muit on a certainty, under limilar circum- 

 " fiances, follow the fame practice in this kingdom, 

 «i is it not eafy to comprehend the reaioning of 

 " thole perfons, whole judgment leads to the gene- 

 " ral recommendation of fo pernicious a fyltem." 



After fuch a chain of reprehenfion, from fo 

 many refpe£f.able found agrtCulturifts, I was not a 

 little lurprized at Mr! Arthur Young's coming for- 

 ward, in the Hampshire Appendix, not only with a 

 ianguine recommendation of this reprobated fyf- 

 tem, but with a fort of cenfure upon fuch of the 

 reporters as are of a different opinion. In an- 

 other place too he has expreffed himfelf with 

 great confidence upon this fubjecl, but whether 

 to his credit or diicredit, I will not take upon me 



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