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are to be met with abounding with mofl 

 excellent land, that is fcarcely to be equalled 

 in any cultivated country. According to 

 common notions, there are few more barren 

 countries than acrofs Staiamore in York- 

 fhire, from Bowas to the Brough : more 

 defolate ones there cannot be ; and yet I 

 have remarked foils (and in great quantities 

 too) in that trad, worth i /. lO s. an acre. 

 Fine rich deep loams, capable of bearing 

 noble crops of any thing ; a thick turf 

 upon it many centuries old, that would 

 fertilize the furface, with good manage- 

 ment, many years, either by ploughing it, 

 or in yielding a vaft quantity of afhes in 

 paring and burning. I Ihall further fup- 

 pofe a gentleman to hire this farm, and to 

 apply it not only to common purpofes, but 

 to fuch improvements as its nature feems 

 moft capable of. The fize of the farm does 

 not require the being confined to one crop 

 out of the common road ; but admits of a 

 variety, without its degenerating into a 

 trifling hufbandry : Nor ihould I omit 

 remarking, that the moft convenient and 

 beneficial contiguity of fijch new farms, 

 inclofed at once, render them, in moft 

 I refpedts 



