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landsj roads^ and hedge-rows, there remains 

 five hundred thoufand acres of arable land. 



This however is, I believe; too fmall a propor- 

 tion ; we will therefore, to eafe the calculation, 

 and to render it, perhaps, more accurate, 

 eftimate the quantity of arable land at fix hun- 

 dred thoufand acres ; which being divided 

 agreeably to the ccurfe of hufbandry m.oft 

 prevalent throughout the countyj affords, annu- 

 ally, one hundred thoufand acres of wheat, two 

 hundred thoufand acres of barley, one hundred 

 thoufand acres of clover, and from fifty to one 

 hundred thoufand acres of turneps. 



I am clearly of opinion, that a quantity equal 

 to one acre in a hundred acres of wheat, to one 

 acre in two hundred of barley^ to one acre in 

 a hundred acres of clover, and to more than one 

 acre in a hundred acres of turneps, is wholly 

 dellroyed or irreparably injured by hares and 

 pheafants. 



1 do not niean that a thoufand diflind" acres 

 of any of tlicfe crops can be picked out ; but 

 that there is, upon the whole, a dePtruclion 

 adequate to the produce, on a par, of a thou- 

 fand acres. 



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