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LETTER X. 



'T^HE next article of improvement, 

 -■■ upon which I fhall for a few minutes 

 demand your patience, is the clearing the 

 foil from fpontaneom rubbifiy and ma?mri?ig 

 it. The firfl: part of this work concerns 

 chiefly grafs lands, which flovenly tenants 

 have fufFered to be overrun with bufhcs, 

 brambles, mole, and ant hills, &c. Iii 

 many thoufand acres of grafs, Vv^hich I 

 have at dilierent times viewed, vafl quan- 

 tities I have feen thus reduced one half in 

 value. Land that ought to yield noble 

 crops of hay, producing nothing but a 

 little fneep feed j or grazing a few head of 

 young cattle. 



The moment a landlord begins his 

 works, let him afiign a proper number of 

 men to grub up all the fpontaneous growth, 

 iu fo thorough a manner, that the fcythe 

 may never after meet with any obffruc- 

 fion : and at the fame time fct a mole-hill 

 plough to v/ork, to cut off all fuch hills, 



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