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fiance, in both which there are very great 

 farms, and where converfation turns much 

 on them, if an account was taken of every 

 one, I have little doubt but the average 

 would turn out, in the former, lefs than 

 the general medium of this tour, and not 

 much above it in the latter. There is no 

 county in England, where large farms, and 

 rich farmers, are more the fubject of com- 

 mon converfation, than Norfolk ; and yet I 

 dare venture to anfwer for it, that the ave- 

 rage of that county, no more than of this 

 tour, is fo high as three hundred acres. 

 We, in no large track of country, hear of 

 very large farms, without a greater num- 

 ber of fmall ones : Certain diftrict.s in 

 Northumberland are exceptions, but they 

 no where continue for above ten or a dozen 

 miles together. For thefe, and an hun- 

 dred other reafons, I apprehend the in- 

 stances quoted every where in converfation, 

 of a country being converted into enormous 

 farms, under the inflammatory epithet df 

 monopoly, if true, bear no proportion to 

 the general ilate of fuch country ; and re- 

 fpecting the kingdom at large, from the 

 minutes of this exlenhve journey, we have 

 the greater]: reafon to believe, that farms 

 are yet moderate upon an average -, and in 

 all matters of this fort, particular inftances 



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