174 ENCLOSIKC. 



Population. — Ten years before embankment : 

 Baptisms from 1780 to 1789 - - 272 



Buiials _ _ _ 224 



Increase - - - 48 



Ten years since tlic embankment : 

 Baptisms from 1790 to 1799 - - 291 



Burials - - . 260 



Increase - - - 22 



This account is surprizing, if we look to the balance ; 

 that near 9CO acres ofwaste should be brought into operose 

 tillage, and have no e.^c6\, or rarher a bad one on popu- 

 lation, seems extraordinary. It could not result, I should 

 suppose, from the profligacy introduced by the bankers, 

 though it might be something, for that cause could not, 

 one would suppose, be more than temporary, even if the 

 eifecl was certain. Has it been caused by removing so 

 much further the eiTc^Sl of the tide in ameliorating rhc 

 armo^pherc of this low tracl of country ? However, tiic 

 comparison must not be estimated altogether from the 

 balance, as stated above, because men leave a parish, and 

 are buried elsewhere ; the ciiristenings are a better rule, 

 perhaps, and these have increased. 



THORPE ABBOTS. 



Here Mr. Pitts has 56 acres of common, and deter- 

 mining to improve it as quickly as possible, advertised for 

 labourers, and had above 40 people at work : he ditched 

 and hollow-drained the whole in six weeks; and has now 

 clayed it 80 loads an acre. Quality price about 14s. an 

 acre. 



TITCH- % 



