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LETTER IV. 



AFTER the inclofure, paring, burn- 

 ing, and liming, the next bufinefs in 

 the cultivation of moors, is the tillage and 

 cropping them : it has been proved by va- 

 rious experience, that thefe lands do much 

 better for grafs than for arable farms. 

 Pafture and meadow gained from the 

 moors, are both good^ equal to moft in 

 the countries ; but the common opinion 

 is, that they are not equally beneficial un- 

 der arable crops : vsrhether this is fa6l or 

 not, I am not a judge, but I may remark, 

 that the crops they gain, intimate no fuch 

 matter. Lime from fpecific gravity cer- 

 tainly will fooner fubfide in arable than in 

 grafs l?.nd, vv'hich is one reafon in favour 

 of the conduft. How^ever, relative to all 

 gentlemen improvers, this circumftance of 

 grafs being preferable, is very fortunate, 

 for the more they reduce arable to grafs, 

 the greater will be their profit. 



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