98 I N C L O S U R E S. 5. 



I. Liclofure by Exchanges. In the north- weft 

 divlfion of the Vale, the common fields and 

 common meadows have moftly been in- 

 clofed progrefTively, piece after piece; either 

 in the original flips, fingly ; or more than 

 one of them have been joined by purchafe, 

 or by private exchanges between the feveral 

 proprietors : by which m.eans the whole of 

 tl'.e appropriated lands of the townfliips in 

 which this fpecies of Inclofure has taken 

 place, have been, in procefsof time, inclofed 

 and held in feveralty. 



This method of Inclofure is attended with 

 at leaft one difagreeable confequence. The 

 common- field lands having lain principally 

 in fingle. ridges, fome of them perhaps near 

 a mile in length, the Inclofures are badly 

 proportioned. They are either too long for 

 their width, many of them refembling lanes 

 rather than fields ; or, if cut into lengths, 

 there are no drift-ways to the inner divifions : 

 — befides, much unneceflary fencing, with all 

 its attendant evih, is by this mode of Inclo- 

 fure incurred ; and what is yet worfe, each 

 nun's property is dill, j^>crhaps, fcattercd over 

 the townfiiip, 



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