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tiful, he would manure the potatoes with it, 

 and then would have the firft crop barley in r 

 flead of oats. A large portion of thefe moun- 

 tains are wet, owing to the lack clay, but the 

 potatoe trenches break it, and let off the 

 water ; after which the land fettles by degrees, 

 and becomes perfectly dry. There are grea,t 

 tracts of many miles extent of heath mountain 

 in this neighbourhood which are capable of the 

 above improvements. 



To (hew what the advantage would be of 

 doing it on a perfect and extenfive fcale, I (hall 

 calculate a fquare mile of fix hundred and forty 

 acres inclofed in fixty-four divifions, ten acres 

 each, and the walls would amount to 



5760 perches, two miles of road at 50I. 100 o Q 



Lord Altamont ha* found that his walls of fix 

 feet high, two feet and a half wide at bot- 

 tom, and fixteen inches at top, built dry, 

 coft him on an average, 5s. a perch tuj- 

 ning-meafure, of 21 feet, including all ex- 

 penses, 5760 at that rate - 144 2 I0 Q 

 Fortygatesof Iron, at 50s. Piers, &c.&c. 5I. 200 o o 

 Of wood, they coft 2\. complete 

 Ten-acre divifions would completely clear 



the land of ftones, 

 Sanding at il. us. 6d. an acre - 984 ° ° 



£. 2726 10 o 

 Brought 



