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the upper margins are productive of furze, 

 fern, and ant-hills. 



Such, from fituation, is the natural fiat e of 

 the Norfolk meadows •, and lorry I am to add, 



that, with a few exceptions, fuch is their pre- 

 fent ft ate. 



Admirer as I am of the arable management 

 of this country, and cautious as I wifli to be 

 of cenfuring, without caufe, any department 

 of its rural economy; I cannot refrain from 

 condemning, in full terms, its grafsland 

 management. 



Having, however, minuted my fentiments 

 on this fubjedt, as they occurred from time to 

 time, in the courfe of my obfervation or prac- 

 tice ; I fhall, in this place, only give a fketch 

 of the prefent management, fuch as it is, and 

 draw what appears to me the general outline of 

 improvement. 



In winter, or towards fpring, when the land- 

 fp rings are flowing and the bogs full of water, 

 a few paltry grips are, fometim.es, made acrofs 

 fuch parts of a meadow as arc no longer able 

 to bear pafturing -flock : thefe grips being 

 ufually run in a perpendicular direction, from 

 the rivulet toward the upper margin. 



But, 



