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fmgular ufe. * I proceed," fays he, p. 90. 

 *' to the confideration of the improvement of 

 *' fuch la.nds that are fo circumftanced as not 

 " to be within the reach of the common or 

 " ufual method of improvement. 'Moft large 

 " eftatcs have very large quantities of land, 

 * that lie remote from the farm-yard ; fome- 

 ' times feveral miles, and often very difficult 

 " of accefs, on account of fteep hills and bad 

 " roads: therefore fuch lands have no chance 

 " to be manured with dung, afhes, lime, or 

 " any fuch thing, the carriage of which 

 44 would come high: and therefore they are 

 " considered as wafte lands, not worth more 

 " than half a crown an acre, and are there- 

 " fore fuffered to be over-run with brambles, 

 *' broom, or furze, from one generation to 

 44 another, though very capable of bearing 

 44 very good corn, if proper methods were 

 * purfued. I have, at this time, feveral 

 44 hundred acres exactly thus circumftanced, 

 " which ferve to no other purpofe, but to 

 44 fummer a few (heep and young cattle. 

 44 Thefe are the ufes thofe lands have been 

 44 put to for a great number of years ; and, as 

 44 their condition is no better than formerly, 

 44 no body confiders them of mere value; and 

 44 confequently I can get no more rent for 

 * 4 them. I have therefore taken feveral of 

 * 4 them into hand, with a determined refo- 

 " lution to improve them, ifpoflible; which 

 1* I have not the leaft doubt of effecYing. I 



P 4 " cannot 



