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quantity of turnep eaten by one of thefe glut- 

 tonous animals in a ftate of confincmcntj is, as 

 the former, a reafonable fuppofitlon. 



Any man, converfant in rural affairs, can form 

 fomc idea of the havock which two hundred 

 wild heath fheep, turned loofe into a fence- 

 lefs corn-country, muft neceffarily make among 

 the crops. But if, in addition to thefe, a thou- 

 fand head of poultry were at the fame tin^ kt 

 loofe, it would be no difficult matter for any 

 man to conceive a pretty ftrocg idea of the 

 confequences. 



From what I hf.ve myfelf feen, and from 

 what I learnt from thofe whom woful expe- 

 rience has taught, I am led to believe, that 

 ichere are not Icfsthan one thoufand acres of tur- 

 neps, one thoufand acres of clover, o-ne thoufand 

 acres of barley, and one thoufand acres of wheat, 

 jinnually dertroycd, or materially injured, in this' 

 county, by hares and pheafants.. 



My calculaLlon is this: — Norfolk contains,, 

 as nearly as this calculation requires, one million, 

 acres of land. Suppofe that half the county 

 confifts of inaiflies, meadows, fneep-walks, and 

 other grafihmd;^, heaths, commons, wood- 

 lands. 



