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chafing will be, to deal always with one 

 drover; by which means he will buy to 

 better advantage, and, at the fame time, 

 be more fure of his market than oihers 

 who take the chance of it. 



The third farm in this lift, is the cold, 

 flat loam, improved. Sach are of great 

 confequence to numerous farmers ; for vaft 

 tradts of the kingdom conlift of thefe foils, 

 and good hufbandmen are backward in oc- 

 cupying them, from the notion that their 

 improvement will not pay the charges ; and 

 fo they are left to flovens, that keep them 

 in as bad a ftate as can be conceived. In 

 no other foils are fuch miferable farms to 

 be met with, as in this. The whole ap- 

 pearance of them, the poverty of the crops 

 and the occupiers, and the vifible greatnefs 

 of the expence of improving them, all tend 

 to frighten many fpirited cultivators from 

 having any thing to do with them. It is 

 true, a man had better pay an high rent for 

 a rich improved clay, than a low one for 

 thefe foils ; but rich clays under favourable 

 circumftances are not always to be had ; 

 whereas fuch as are here defcribed may 

 probably be in much greater plenty, and 



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