ijB VEGETATING-PROCESS. 23. 



icoo acres of wheat, worth on a £. s. d. 



par of crops, in a par of years, 



61. 6,000 o o 



loooacresof barley, at 4I. los. 4,500 o o 

 1000 acres of clover, and the 



confequential damages 5,000 o o 

 750 acres of turneps, and the 



confequential damages, at lol. 7,500 o 



£. 23,000 o o 



If we view this inordinate quantity of game 

 in a moral light, its evil confequences, whe- 

 ther we confider them in a private or a public 

 view, are ftill greater. 



There are an hundred, perhaps five hundred, 

 men in this county whofe principal depen- 

 dence, for their own and their family's fup- 

 port, is on poaching. The coal-irade and 

 fifheries are not more certain nurferies of Tea- 

 men than kept-covers are of poachers. An 

 exceffive quantity of game is not more certainly 

 deftrudtive of the crops they have acccfs to, 

 than it is inevitably produftive of idlenefs and 

 diflionclly among the labourers of the neigh- 

 bourhoods Two or three lliillings for a phea- 

 fant, the ufual price, 1 undcrfland, given by. 

 the wholcfale dealers in Norwich, is a tempta- 

 tion. 



