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gin with 2 or 3000 acres in his own hands ; 

 he did not, however, turn out the people, but 

 kept them in to fee the effect of his operations. 



Thefe were of a magnitude I have never 

 heard before: he had for feveral years 27 lime- 

 kilns burning ftone, which was brought four 

 miles with culm from Milford Haven. He 

 had 450 cars employed by thefe kilns, and 

 paid 700I. a year for culm : the Hone was 

 quarried by from 60 to 80 men regularly at 

 that work ; this was doing the bufinefs with 

 imcomparable fpirit — yet had he no peculiar 

 advantages, but many circumftances againfl 

 him, among which his conftant attendance on 

 the courts, which enabled him to fee Cullen 

 but by flarts, was not the leait. The works 

 were necefTarily left to others at a time that 

 he could have wifhed conftantly to have at- 

 tended them. 



While this vaft bufinefs of liming was go- 

 ing forwards, roads were alfo making, and the 

 whole tract inclofed in fields of about 10 acres 

 each, with ditches 7 feet wide, and 6 deep, at 

 is. a perch, the banks planted with quick and 

 foreft trees. Of thefe fences 70,000 perches 

 were done. 



In order to create-a new race of tenants, he 

 fixed upon the moft a&ive and induftrious la- 

 bourers, bought them cows, &c. and advanced 

 money to begin with little farms, leaving 

 them to pay it as they could* Thefe men he 

 L 2 nmfed 



