16 Wig ton. 



less than two hundred thousand acres in the 

 county of Cumberland have been brought, or 

 are now bringing, into cultivation. 



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The lands surrounding the town of Wigton 

 are in general of good quality. The system of 

 husbandry pursued on Mr. Clarke's estate, by 

 his tenant Mr. Irwin, who is an admirable 

 farmer, is superior to most in the neighbour- 

 hood. That an example of such husbandry 

 should be in daily practice and exhibition, with- 

 out producing a due effect on those who are 

 hourly witnessing it, is to me not less surprising 

 than unaccountable. 



When a nobleman or gentleman thinks proper 

 to prefer the laudable expenditure of his wealth 

 in endeavouring to improve the verdant surface 

 of his estate at home, instead of sacrificing it 

 irrationally to the fineness of the turf at New- 

 market, doubts may indeed arise in the minds 

 of others, whether profitable returns have been 

 sufficiently consulted. It would certainly be 

 adviseable that improvements of this description, 

 especially when meditated on a large scale, 

 should not be undertaken but in contemplation 

 of resulting profits, of an immediate or remote 

 nature, and of setting an example worthy of 

 imitation. Nothing is more seductive or allur- 



