SOUTH DEVONSHIRE. 305 



RETROSPECTIVE VIEW 



OF THE 



RURAL ECONOMY 



OF 



SOUTH DEVONSHIRE. 



I 



N .taking the foregoing View of the 

 South Hams and its Rural Manage- 

 ment, fome reflections have arifen, which 

 it might be wrong to fupprefs. 



Viewing its ftate of hufbandry, in the 

 aggregate, and including the modern im- 

 provements of individuals, it approaches 

 nearly tp the medium of that of the king- 

 dom at large. The permanent grafslands 

 appear to be moftly well kept, and are 

 jnany of them partially watered : and the 



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