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 in this country let very high, perhaps for 

 more than their vahie, on account of their 

 fcarcity, and the vales and uninclofed fields, 

 fituated near the villages, are of much 

 greater value than the other parts, both 

 from their kindly nature, and from fitua- 

 tion. Now thefe muft be taken into the 

 account, in order to form an average ot 

 rent and produce ; and to enable you to do 

 this, and corred; thofe paffages in your next 

 edition, I will here give you the medium 

 produce in grain of the belt fields through- 

 out my wolds eftatc, and the average like- 

 wife of acreable rent, including good and 

 bad land, inclofed and uninclofed : And as 

 my property hereabouts is pretty extenfive, 

 you may from thence form a tolerably 

 accurate idea of the rent and produce of 

 the Eq/l Riding wolds. 



The held land and inclofures near my 

 houfe, and around the villages on my eftate, 

 confifting of many hundred acres, is part 

 fand, and the reft a marly loam; the for- 

 mer is excellent for turnips and barley, and 

 the latter is not only fuitable to thofe, but 

 admits of tolerable good crops of clover and 

 wheat. Our inclofed fields produce at a 

 medium, four quarters two bufhcls of bar- 

 ley per acre, a tun and a half of clover 

 fcay, turnips worth two guineas, and three 

 quarters of wheat. The uninclofed fields, 

 but where the foil and fituation is nearly 



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