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conjectures, and general calculations, found- 

 ed on circumftances extremely foreign to the 

 fubject; like many which, at different 

 times, have been publifhed concerning ren- 

 tal> value, &c. 



The number of acres in England has 

 been varioufly calculated, by different wri- 

 ters, from twenty-nine to forty millions, 

 exclufive of Wales. The rev. Mr. Harte, 

 in his juflly applauded EJfays on Hujba?idry, 

 calculates them at thirty-four millions: I 

 (hall follow this fuppofition, as that gen- 

 tleman has evidently confulted mod writers 

 on thefe fubjects, and is withal particularly 

 accurate. 



From thefe thirty-four millions I know 

 of nothing to be deducted but large rivers, 

 (fmall ones and roads are always meafured 

 to the adjoining lands; the acres of the 

 farms inferted in the minutes were always 

 the grofs number commonly mentioned in 

 converfation, which is the total per farm, 

 including rivers, lanes, hedges, ditches,) 

 towns, cities, houfes, parks, chaces, royal 

 forefts, woods, and commons : Barren and 

 uncultivated lands muft not be excluded, as 

 they come pretty largely into the particulars 

 of many of the farms vhemfelves. A million 

 and half of acres muft be an ample deduction 

 for thofe articles : But to obviate objections, 

 I mail fuppofe them to amount to two 



millions ; 



