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 of the dried peats are the fame, as Mr. Danby 

 experimentally knows. But I forbear to 

 enlarge further upon an article in which I 

 have not the fame authorities for reafoning 

 as I had with the former clafles. 



Laftly, I muft remark upon this fubjedt 

 of improving moors, that a more profitable 

 field remains yet to be mentioned ; which is 

 the moorfide flirms. Mr. Danby has fome 

 thoufands of acres of thefe *, and other 

 gentlemen the fame. I know not one who 

 hath not very large trads of moor-land an- 

 nexed and inclofed, but which remain in the 

 fame unimproved ftate as the moors them- 

 felves, all the profit of them being the con- 

 veniency of the fhcep they feed not rambling 

 at large. Now the improvement of thefe 



* Among other farms of this fort, let me infert the 

 following contiguous ones. 



170 Acres Rent^. 11 



400 - - - 65 



91 - - - 6 



300 - - - 52 



961 134 



500 of thefe acres are as good land as any in England, 

 and yet alrr.oft ufclefs. Mr. Danby offered me thefe 

 961 acres at that rent for any term of years, and with 

 many advantages ; were I poireilcd of an unappropri- 

 ated 4000 A I would have accepted the offer, with as 

 great a certainty of profit, as pleafure at the idea 

 of improvement. 



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