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Relative to all the articles of the preced- 

 ing expences, I will pofitively affure the 

 reader, that they are in no refpecl matter 

 of opinion j but aclual facts, which I 

 gained in various excurfions on the moors 

 from gentlemen, common farmers, and 

 little improvers. The prices are known to 

 the whole North Riding of Tork, which 

 contains amazing tracls of thefe moors ; 

 and there is fcarcely one article, but what 

 I have increafed, that I might be fure not 

 to be under the mark j witnefs my cal- 

 culating, paring and burning at 20 j. an 

 acre, though i6j-. 6 ^. is the price. Like- 

 wife my fuppofmg the improvement to be 

 6 miles from lime, a circumilance of vail: 

 expence, and ^ which not one tra6l in 

 twenty labours under. In all other articles 

 of expence, 1 have been equally liberal. 



The rating the improved grafs, at 20 s, 

 per acre, I before particularly explained; by 

 fhewing that the fame 'moors in common, 

 and very execrable management, were ad- 

 vanced to lis. and ijj". and fome to 20 5. 

 without a tenth of the advantages my 

 farms enjoy j a contrail, which I am con- 

 fident muft ftrike every one, and force the 

 moll dubious to allow, that if fuch ma- 

 7 nagement 



