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 of ufe. The adjoining moors are common 

 to the houfes around them; would let, if 

 incloied, at 3 s. 6 d. or 4 s. an acre, with- 

 out further improvement, and might be 

 made, with nothing but good hufbandry, 

 worth 10 j. an acre. What a fcandal that 

 they remain in their prefent condition ! 

 The foil in this country is chiefly fand and 

 gravel. The inclofures let at 20 s. an acre, 

 and the open fields at 7 s. 6 d. Their 

 courfe of crops, 



1. Fallow 



2. Wheat 



3. Barley 



They pare and burn a little, and fow rape 

 on it : They have a little fainfoine in 

 their'gravelly inclofures. Between Market 

 Weighton, and Beverley, I obferved feveral 

 warrens, which mull raife the wonder of 

 every traveller, to fee fuch good land left to 

 fo woful an ufe ; the turf is exceedingly 

 rich and fine, and the plentiful crops of 

 thiftles fcattered about it, prove the natural 

 goodnefs of the foil ; for the thiftle is fo 

 luxuriant and exhaufting a vegetable, with 

 fo ftrong and penetrating a tap root, that 

 it is fcarce ever found on bad foils. 



About Bifnop\ Burton is fome of the 

 moft extrordinary open field land I have 

 met with ; for it let while open at 1 8 s. and 

 20 s. an acre; and now a bill of inclofure 

 has paHed, it is fa id to be raifed to near 

 L 3 30 s. 



