6b MANAGEMENT OF ESTATE^. 



fwells, are flill occupied by wood ; and 

 though it may frequently happen thatj 

 where this is the cafe, the land is equllly as 

 well adapted to that fpecies of produce, as 

 to cultivation ; yet this is not always the 

 cafe : and fomething, though not much 

 perhaps, ftill remains to be done in this 

 department of management. 



II. LAYING OUT FARM LANDS. 

 In the diflribution of culturable landsj into 

 diflindl holdings, the DifbicS: under view 

 may claim fome merit. The farms, though 

 of different fizes, are many of them fmall } 

 perhaps too many of them are of this de- 

 fcription j but, in general, they lie well 

 about the homeftall ; or rather, we fhould 

 fay, the homefteads have been judicioufly 

 placed within the areas of the lands ; not 

 in villages ; as is too often the cafe, in 

 many parts of the Ifland. 



m. FARMERIES. ThesiTtJATio>is 

 of homefteads, or farm buildings and 

 yards, are generally well chofen; as the 

 fide of a valley, or near the head of a coomb 



or 



