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which merit greater attention. There are 

 three points which an improving landlord 

 fhoLild particularly attend to: Firft, the 

 cxiflence of limeftone upon liis eflate : 

 Secondly, if it is not on his own land, that 

 it be within a fliort cartage of it on roads 

 either good, or eafily to be made fo : 

 Thirdly, that if he enjoys neither of thefe 

 circumftances, but is forced to draw his 

 line from a diftance, that the roads be good 

 enoL!2;h for the ufe of a broad-wheeled 

 waggon. If an eflate is fo unhappily 

 fituated, as to pofiefs none of thefe advan- 

 tages, then the improvement of it muft 

 not depend on lime, but on paring and 

 burning alone ; the efficacy of which, on 

 moory foils, I am not acquainted with ; 

 for wherever I made my enquiries, lime 

 was always at command ; nor do I appre- 

 hend, that one efcate in a hundred is in 

 fuch a predicament : the fuppofition, there- 

 fore, is not material to the point of im- 

 provements in general. 



There are fome tra6ls of moors, that rre 

 fuppofed to be without limelione j and 

 the farmers adjoining them, bring it 5 or 

 6 miles ; but I could never find that dili- 

 gent fearch had been made after it : it is 

 3 the 



