yj$ ZNCLOSIKG. 



There has been raised by the Commis- 

 sioners - - - 29,000 o o 

 Aii'lit will demand lol. a right more, or 5,280 o o 



;^.34,28o o o 



Sixty-five pound a right jn all ; 55I. a right for drain- 

 age ; and lol. for ail, Commissioners, &:c. 



For each right ^the allotment in the Fen is from 12 to 

 15 acres, in the distant and lower part : and 6|, for a mile 

 and a half from the mill ; and on the Smecth, from 2|- 

 to 3. 



Some of the latter has sold for 50I. an acre ; and much 

 "Would sell for 70I. and even more. Rights sold three or 

 four years ago, from lool. to 1251. each. 



The Smeeth would, under the hammer, let at 3I. an acre j 

 and the Fen, at 25s. 



This great tra6l of land was, in its former state, worth 

 little: the Fen not above is. an acre in reed, being two or 

 three feet deep under water : the Smeeth was often under 

 •water, in parts to the amount of half ; and then at the Mid- 

 summer after rotted the sheep that fed it. 



The first crop tak^ on the Smeeth, a strong clay soii 

 on silt, has been chiefly mustard ; the crops great (see that 

 article) ; wheat by some ; and oats by other* : the last 

 ■were great crops, of 16 or 18 coombs an acre 5 and would 

 have been 20, or more; but the bulk of straw too great. 

 I found the country in a blaze, burning the oat stubbles, 

 to sow cole for seed, about Michaelmas, on one earth. 



Above 30,0001. a year is added t6 the produce of the 

 kingdom, by this most beneficial undertaking. 



The poor people who turned cows, geese, and ducks upon 

 the common, without possessing rights^ have suffered, as 



