«54 FAR M S. Hi 



12. 

 FARMS. 



THE SIZES OF FARMS vary in dlf^ 

 fcrent parts of the Diflricl. On the Wolds^ 

 they are principally large ; in the Vale and 

 the MoRELANDS, extremely fmalh 



Confidering the Vale diftinclly, more than 

 half of its lands are laid out in farms under 

 twenty pounds a-yeaf. Perhaps three-fourths 

 of the Vale and the lands belonging to it lie 

 in farms of Icfs than fifty pounds a-year. 



In the weft marfiies, and in the richer 

 PARTS OF THE Vale, low moift fituations, 

 inhabitants arc thinner, and farms larger. 



But viewing the Vale colledlively, there 

 is not perhaps in this kingdom another Dlf- 

 tridt of equal extent, and of which hus- 

 bandry is the PRIMARY OBJECT, which con- 

 tains fo great a number of farms^ or rather 

 parcels of land in diftindl occupation ; many 

 ot them being occupied not by tenants 

 but by OWNERS. 



The 



