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Now it is very clear, that the land (with 

 proper liming) that will yield fuch produc- 

 tions, and with no better ploughing thark 

 can be eff'dted withafingle galloway, muft 

 in its nature be very good ; five fucceflive 

 crops of oats, one would apprehend fuffi- 

 cicnt to exhauft any foil, but this land 

 evidently flood it well, from yielding good 



grafs afterwards, which I examined. 



While wc viewed Crofth fields, Mr. Danby 

 afked his fteward, who was prefent, what 

 he could let fuch grafs as all Croft\ at per 

 acre? He replied. In quantities of any extent 

 at i^s. per acre, but in fmall parcels of 20 

 or 30 acres at 20 s. An improvement which 

 is aftonifliing, from land that was abfolutely 

 and totally wajle. But the goodnefs of it 

 alfo appears from Croft\ ftock of cattle, and 

 t!ie quantity applied to feed a cow, which 

 will be found not more perhaps than the 

 medium quantity, through the cultivated 

 countries of this whole tour. 



It is from all thefe circumftances evident 

 enough, that this kind of moor-land i& 

 amply capable of improvement; and that 

 there is nothing in the nature of the foil 

 which gives any reafon to doubt of render- 

 ing it exceeding good land. Thefe fa6ls 



are totally indubitable. The materiaF 



qucflion is, the profit attending the improve- 

 ment. The greateft enemies to the cultiva- 

 tion of m^ors allow that they arc capable of 



being 



