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fix (Killings an acre, and in fome to no 

 more than eighteen pence and two mil- 

 lings an acre. In ftrong rich lands, where 

 they have fome meadow lands, the rife is 

 higher. But indeed the fmallnefs of the 

 rife is, in fome meafure, owing to their want 

 of better hufbandry ; for with very few 

 meadows, they know fcarce any thing of 

 clover and ray-grafs or turnips ; confe- 

 quently the value of an inclolure is com- 

 paratively fmall to them. 



But whatever caufe the fact is owing to, 

 it remains equally furprizing that the pro- 

 prietors mould not be more attentive to 

 their intereft, a rife of rent fufficient to pay 

 the expences of the inclolure under the 

 management of honefr, able, and careful 

 conductors, may vanifh into nothing upon 

 the mention of thofe who have neither 

 integrity, abilities, or attention ; and it 

 mull be ftrange fupinenefs indeed that can 

 fuffer the gentlemen of a county to be 

 duped in fo flagrant a manner, as to allow 

 even in idea the trains of impofition which 

 are now common in the bufincfs of inclo- 

 fures. It is wonderful they do not exert 

 themfelves to introduce common fenfe and 

 honefty, in an affair hitherto under the 

 cognizance of ignorance, knavery, and felf- 

 intereft. ' 



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