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L E T T E P. XI. 



T COME in the next place, to treat of 

 "*■ the improvement of thofe uncultivated 

 dry foils, that cover jirata of marie, fat 

 chalk or clay ; the improvement of thefe 

 varies much from the preceding fort, fo 

 that it was impoffible to confider both un- 

 der one head. 



I fuppofe thefe tra6ts to be uninclofed, 

 and applied at beft to nothing more than 

 the feeding rabbits or fheep j the improver 

 muft build farm-houfcs upon it, in num- 

 ber according to tlie fized farms, mod 

 marketable in t'lc country : this ai tide of 

 building muft be calculated as much more 

 cxpenfive than in any of the preceding im- 

 'jrovements o^ foils that abound with 

 ftone: probably thefe light fandy lands on 

 ricli jirata^ liave no command of fione ; 

 confequently (as I ever fuppofe all build- 

 ings to be erecled in the fLionj^eft and moft 

 fubflantial manner) we niufl calculate for 



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