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tion ; and then the average of the remain- 

 der would be much lefs than two hundred 

 and eighty-feven acres. 



The proportion of the gfafs and arable 

 furprizes me not a little. I had no notion 

 of fo juft a proportion exiftirig in general : 

 The common mifchief, irt nine farms out 

 of ten, is the having too little grafs land j 

 by which means the arable is fo frequently 

 run out of heart for want of the manure 

 which arifes from great flocks of cattle. 

 Half and half is a good proportion ; it 

 Would be much for the benefit of agricul- 

 ture if fuch an one was preferved in all the 

 moid and heavy parts of the kingdom, 

 inftead of poaching with the plough over 

 fields that do not get a manuring once in 

 feven years. 



The article of rent is a llrong con- 

 firmation of the fize of farms not be- 

 ing, upon the whole, overgrown. An 

 hundred and forty-two pounds a year 

 is, in no country which I am acquainted 

 with, reckoned even a large farm j or too 

 targe even by thofe gentlemen that argue 

 very much againft large farms in ge- 

 neral. 



The rent per acre is nearly ten fhil- 



The fmall variation between that 



ftirn, and the general average of the tour, 



drawn 



