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this land, that now only keeps five cows and 

 two pigs. I fhall have from fifty to fixty 

 quarters of wheat upon the ten acres, and buy 

 no manure ; the produce of the land furnifhing 

 fufficient far it. - 



But let it not be underftood that I am an 

 cncoufager of wades and commons — I hate 

 them. It is not, indeed, to be afcribed en- 

 tirely to the induHry of the people that com- 

 mons are fo abundantly ftockedj but too often 

 to envy. The man who pofiTeiTes right of 

 common thus reafons with himfelf : "Al- 

 though it is of no ufe to me to ftock the com- 

 mon-, if I negled to do it, my neighbour 

 will enjoy the whole as if it were an cnclofure 

 belonging to him. Therefore, to prevent him, 

 I will injure myfeif.'' It is wonderful to fee 

 what numbers of fheep (ecd upon the commons 

 in Weftmoreland and Cumberland ; and yet 

 I would Jiot have that land for inclofing to 

 divide into fields ten acres each field. I 

 could apply money much better, by taking 

 land of a more fertile nature. There are, how- 

 ever, thoufands of acres with a rich and im- 

 provable foil uninclofed, which in their pre- 



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