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In the whole townfhip of Slillingjlat, are, 

 1700 Acres 



13 Farms 



60 Acres of wood 



20 Of common Iheep walk 



20 Labourers 

 Poor rates, 6d. in the pound rack rent. 



I know very few tracts of country en- 

 joying greater natural advantages than this 

 neighbourhood, they have a very fine na- 

 vigable river borders their farms, which 

 carries any or all of their products to York, 

 at the fmall diftance of feven miles, and 

 alfo keeps a conftant communication open 

 to the fouthern rivers and with Hull; this 

 navigation being at their very doors, fpares 

 them all expences of land carnage on their 

 corn, and at the fame time enables them to 

 bring whatever quantities of manure they 

 pleaie from Fork, on very eafy terms, and 

 lime from other parts at as low a rate. 

 Thefe advantages are ineftimable. 



Their foil contains in almoft every farm 

 that variety which a fenlible cultivator 

 would moft wifh. for, viz. an excellent 

 light fandy loam, in fome fields quite a 

 fand, but rich, and abounding with luxu- 

 riant fpontaneous growth ; and a ftrong 

 clay, good enough to yield beneficial crops 

 of the moft exhaufting vegetables. Un- 

 fortunately however, the fanners, who are 

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