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 lefs land was enclofed, with farm houfes, 

 and proper offices built, it would lett at 

 once for i 5 s. an acre, without further ex- 

 pence. It is undoubtedly worthy of his 

 Majerty's conlideration, whether the noble 

 improvement of his private revenue, which 

 might in this, as well as many other in- 

 ftances, be eafiiy made, is not very well 

 worth fome attention, in points wherein the 

 good of the whole nation is in proportion to 



the increafe of the profit of the crown. 

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And now, Sir, being at lad: arrived at 

 home, after fo long a journey, you may na- 

 turally expect I mould give you fome infor- 

 mation of my own, after acquiring fo much 

 of almoft. every perfon I have met with : — 

 I mall therefore minute, under the preceding 

 heads, the hufbandry of this neighbourhood. 

 - The foil is extremely various : Here are 

 many tracks of ftrong clay land ; fome of a 

 ftiff loam -, others of a light loam; but in 

 general it is a blue pebbly gravel ; amazing- 

 ly unkind in the production of any crop 

 without plenty of manure. A foil highly 

 worthy the attention of the curious in huf- 

 bandry. To render it profitable land, I be- 

 lieve is the ne plus ultra of the moil ipirited 

 improver. It us naturally fo poor, that you 

 will not have your feed in any corn crop : 

 In grals it is utterly contemptible : much of 

 it too wet for fainfoine : and if you manure 



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