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 fo far as to employ 150 hands, who made 

 very fufficient earnings for their mainte- 

 nance ; but the decay of the woollen ex- 

 portation reduced them fo much, that now 

 thofe employed are, I believe, under a dozen. 



Sir George has given his attention fome- 

 what to the improvement of the poor land 

 that furrounds him : He has tried fainfoine 

 with great fuccefs for many years upon his 

 wold land ; that which was let at 2 s. and 

 IS, 6 d. per acre, he has made, by means 

 of fainfoine, worth 20 s. and 25 x. One 

 circumftance I remarked, which was the 

 latenefs of his hay-time, which he judi- 

 cioufly attributed to the neceffity they are 

 under of feeding their grafs fo late in the 

 fpring, that the crop is made very back- 

 ward ; for after the turnips are gone, their 

 iheep and lam.bs would almoft ilarve, if 

 not fo kept. Ti\is fpeaks the neceffity of 

 introducing cabbages, or fome other ve- 

 getable, that v/ill yield plenty of food 

 through March and April: But I faw not, 

 nor heard any thing of that fort as I palled 

 through this country. 



Acrofs the wolds, I could not but regret 

 the wretched manap-ement which left fuch 

 large tradts of land in fo uncultivated a 

 flate : It lets from 4^/. to 4 J. an acre, be- 

 tween Boynton and Honanby. They plough 

 up the turf, and ibw barley, or more often 

 i>ats, and then leave the foil to gain of itfelf a 



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