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APPENDIX IV 



MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION 



Gregory King, at the end of the seventeenth century, estimated the 

 acreage of England and Wales at 39,000,000 — not at all a bad estimate, 

 the area, excluding water, according to the Board of Agriculture Returns 

 of 1907, being 37,130,344. The different estimates by Grew, Templeman, 

 Petty, Young, H alley, Middleton, and others varied between 31,648,000 

 and 46,916,000 acres. The last, that of Arthur Young, was actually 

 adopted by Pitt for his estimate of the income-tax.^ 



' C. Wren Hoskyns, Pamphlet on Agricultural Statistics, p. 19. 

 "^ English Agriculture in 1850-1, p. 521. Cf. above, p. 331. 



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