SOUTH DEVONSHIRE. 307 



tn the detail ; a few modern improvements, 

 — chiefly perhaps of individuals, — only ex- 

 cepted ; they perfectly agree v^^ith thofe of 

 WestDevonshire. In soil, surface, 

 and ESTABLISHED PRACTICE, they may 

 well be confidered as the same Dis- 

 trict; and the following remarks are 

 applicable to the whole of the inclofed lands 

 of 



SOUTH DEVONSHIRE. 



IT rriay be right to premife, that, not- 

 withftanding the apparent deficiency, in 

 refped; to produce, the lands of South De- 

 vonfhire pay a rent, equal to what would be 

 efteemed their fair value, in better culti- 

 vated Diftridts. This feemino; contra- 

 didlion is to be reconciled, by the circum- 

 ftance of the Danmonian prad:ice having 

 no high-fed horfes to fuppOrt ; — by the 

 lownefs of wages, and by the frugality of 

 living, among working farmers ;— by a 

 ready market and i;nuch water carriage ;— 

 and, ftill more, by the favorable circum- 

 X 2 ftance 



