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L E T T E R II. 



n^HROUGHOUT all the north of 

 England^ the proper method of break- 

 ing up wafte foils is agreed, from a long 

 courfe of uninterrupted experience, to be 

 paring and burning > but as it has of late 

 been the fafliion in the fouth to explode 

 this culture, fomething muft be faid to 

 reconcile fuch jarring opinions. 



The advocates for this method of im- 

 provement, produce a vafi: range of ex- 

 periment to juftify the pradice; whereas 

 its enemies found their opinion merely on 

 reafoning. How is it poiTible, fay they, that 

 it can be profitable huibandiy to reduce 

 an inch of the beft part of the foil every 

 15 or 20 years to the thicknefsof afheetof 

 paper ? The argument is plaufible, but what 

 would be of twenty times the importance 

 of an hundred arguments would be to 

 produce a field of a thin flaple : this land 

 was once good in the depth of ten inches of 

 foil J it is now b a Dfrom having hut four. But 



no 



