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would amount to four hundred pounds, or 

 fifteen to twenty pounds a-year. 



The rent, in the firft inftance, was, I be- 

 lieve, fixed at eight fliillings an acre. Three 

 hundred acres at eight Ihillings produce one 

 hundred and twenty pounds a-year ; fo that 

 in the outfet there appears to be a clear im- 

 provement of fifty pounds a-year. In twelve 

 or fourteen years it may be worth twice that 

 rent, the foil being deep, and of a quality 

 which, though not rich, is fuited by fituation 

 to both corn and grafs. When the flipulatcd 

 improvements are made by the firft occu- 

 piers, the three hundred acres will be worth 

 at leaft two hundred pounds a-year; namely, 



FOUR TIMES ITS FORMER VALUS. 



Another inftance of river-embankment oc- 

 curs in this townfliip. The commiflioners 

 under the Att of Inclofure have wifely fecur- 

 cd the lower grounds to be inclofed from the 

 waters of floods which have hitherto occa- 

 fionally overflowed them. The remedy in 

 this cafe was eafy : a partial embankment 

 only was neceflary ; and the bank, in the 

 parts where it was wanted, feldom required 

 to h: ralfed above two or three feet high. 



Never- 



