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and covered drains laid into them : thcfe 

 covered drains I have fufficiently explained 

 in the firfl: part of this u'ork. 



I fhall fuppofe the farms large ones, 

 and all of grafs, and to let, when improved 

 upon a proper plan, at 20 s. fer acre. In 

 working this improvement, the landlord 

 is to acl on the principles already laid 

 dov»'n ; particularly that of inclofing a 

 farm ccery yearj and mortgaging it as 

 foon as let for money, to proceed with his 

 defigns. 



The fences are to be the fame as in the 

 laft ftated improvement; that is, ditches, the 

 banks planted with white thorn, and defend- 

 ed by a dead hedge. It would on many 

 tracts of this fort of land, be no improbable 

 fuppofition, to ftate the dead hedges to be 

 made out of the bufiies that arofe in clear- 

 ing the land; but I fhall wave fuch advan- 

 tage, and charge the whole coil as before. 



Refpedling the grubbing up of the 

 fpontaneous growth, it is to be obfcrved, 

 that the common pra6lice is very clear and 

 determinate. The men cut off all the 

 wood, and make it into faggots at a given 

 price; they then grub up all the roots, fo 

 as a plouiih fliall meet with no cbftru6lion, 

 ^ " for 



