132 MANAGEMENT OF FARMS* 



fure, out of the nature of foils, and the 

 ftate of occupancy in which they have 

 happened to be placed, is probable, from 

 the ftriking fad, that the general Plan of 

 Management, now pradtifed in the Diftricft 

 under view, is, in outline, the fame as that 

 of the Midland Diftrid;, fituated at two 

 hundred miles diHance, and fevered from 

 it .by Diflridls purfuing contrary practices: 

 Both of them have been fome length of 

 timfe in a ftate of inclofure ; both of them 

 are produdiive either of corn or grafs ; and 

 both of them have fallen into that routine 

 of Management, which, viewed in the 

 outline, will not, perhaps, admit of much 

 improvement : namely, that of fubjediing 

 the lands in general to an alternacy of corn 

 and grafs -, but preferving the bottoms of 

 valiies and dips, in a flate of perennial grafs 

 or meadow land. And, what is remark- 

 able, thefe lands, in both DifJ:ri(5ts, have 

 been watered, time out of mind : but with 

 tjiis. ftill more remarkable difference, the 

 one was wholly overflowed, and kept co- 

 vered with- flag nant water, the other irri- 

 gated 



