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1745, only is. 6d. Ditching, gd.'a perch. 

 Double ones, is. 6d. feven feet wide at top, 

 three and a half at bottom, and four deep, and 

 they will earn 8d. a day at it. Hire of a car, 

 is. 6d. a day. In 1745 it was is. Price of a 

 car, il. i8s. 3d. Building a mud cabbin, 3!. 

 Stone and (late, 25!. Mafon's perch of {lone 

 walls for labour, 9d. fix feet high complete, 

 1 6s. Oak, 4!. a ton; twenty years ago, 2!. 

 Lime, io4-d. a barrel, burnt with culm, 

 brought 25 miles. 



Mr. Lloyd has worked a very great improve- 

 ment of a (baking morafs, which when he be- 

 gan was worth only 55. an acre. The firft 

 bufmefs was banking it, from a river fubjecl: 

 to floods, with a parallel back cut, to carry off 

 the water that came over his bank. He then 

 carried a central drain through it and a mile 

 beyond it, to gain a fall. Next he fubdivided 

 it into fields, from 10 to 20 acres, by ditches 

 planted with quick. The land was over-run 

 with much underwood and fedgy tufibcks, &c. 

 thefe were all grubbed, cut up, and burnt; 

 after which cattle were put in, the improve- 

 ment being finifhed ; and it has grown better 

 and better ever fince, being now worth 30$. an 

 acre : fome of it is actually let at 385. It was 

 a very expenfive undertaking, owing to the 

 ill-earn above him belonging to a neighbour, 

 who did not fecond his undertaking ; he was 

 obliged to make along bank upon this account 

 only, partly over a turf bog, which was blown 

 up once, but made again with great difficulty ; 



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