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With the ether clafs, this is not the cafe : 

 The grand article of their agriculture is 

 the improvement of moors ; and a more 

 ilovenly hufoandry than theirs, in this 

 branch, can no where be found. The plow- 

 ing up waftes, without a previous inclofure, 

 and breaking up the decpeft foils, without 

 paring and burning : — the fowing two, three, 

 and even four crops of corn running, upon a 

 ploughing up, and liming ; — the leaving the 

 exhaulted foil to turf itfelf, in fome places, 

 and only Scattering a little ray graft in others ; 

 — the keeping eight and ten thoufand (beep, 

 and never folding : — All thefe are flrokes of 

 barbarifm, which tend to damp, and even 

 extinguish the fpirit of improvement, from 

 the infallible want of fuccefs, and to the 

 leaving a country, after what is here called 

 improvement, in as miferable and wafte a 

 ftate as before it was begun. 



The occupiers of large farms, 'w r ho are 

 confequently men of confiderable fubftance, 

 are, in moil parts of E?igland, the greatelt 

 of all improvers: Nature takes a r.ew face 

 under their hands; whole counties are con- 

 verted at once from defarts, into finely culti- 

 vated countries : But here we meet with no 

 improvements that ueferve the name; no- 

 thing Killing; three or four tolerable crops, 

 and then the land left as defolate as ever, in 

 the true fpirit of a little paltry farmer of 2c/. 

 a ycir. Unworthy thole who occupy a* 



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