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^^ Sir, Ganton^ t,^ Aprils 177O' 



" In compliance, with the requefl con- 

 tained in your laft letter, I proceed to give 

 you a detail of fome experiments I have 

 made on the cultivated graffes on the high 

 wolds: But I muft firft premife, that in 

 the letters I wrote to you from Bath^ and 

 which you have inf^rted in the fecond 

 volume of your Six Months Tour, I have 

 either exprelled myfelf not clearly enough 

 in one particular, or you have miftaken my 

 meaning. For in fpeakinj^ of the high 

 wolds, its rental, produce and improve- 

 ment, i meant to confine myfelf merely to 

 the uninclofed parts which lie diftant from 

 the villages,, and are confequently poorly 

 cultivated j fuch parts I do think cannot be 

 eftimated, nor do they let for much more 

 than i s. per acre. But in. two or three 

 parts of your work, particularly in vol. 4th, 

 pages 56, and 74, and 91, &c. you Infert, 

 that as the average rental of an extenfive 

 country, 20 miles by 15, and ftate the pro- 

 duce accordingly ; which would give a 

 ftranger a very wrong idea, both of the va- 

 lue of land in that country, and of its pro- 

 dudions *. The truth is, that the inclofures 



* I am particularly obliged to Sir D'lghy for this 

 corre6lion, and have accordingly made uie of it, in all 

 the places mentioned : The calculating the unculti- 

 vated pzrts at a fqiiare of 15 nailes was the occafioa 

 of my miftake. 



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