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furveys that have been made, at diftant 

 periods of time, might bring this matter to 

 a greater degree of certainty, than either 

 of them, taken feparately. 



IIL The PRESENT APPLICATION 

 of Farm Lands. Viewing the Diftrid; at 

 large. Farms in general are in a flate of 

 MIXED CULTIVATION; comprizing ^r^/^/^ 

 la7idy temporary leys, %vater mcadoivs, and 

 orchard grounds : grassland being the 

 more prominent chara<^eriftic, as will more 

 fully appear in fpeaking of their manage- 

 ment. 



IV. The SIZES OF FARMS are, as 

 they ought to be, extremely various. 

 Bartons (a name which perhaps was 

 originally given to demefne lands, or manor 

 farms, but which now feems to be applied 

 to any large farm, in contradiftindion to 

 the more common defcription of farms) 

 are generally of a full fize -, as from tv/o 

 or three to four or five hundred acres of 

 culturablc lands. Ordinary tarms run from 

 ten to a hundred pounds a year. 



H 3 General. 



