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kt it to his old tenants at 40s. an acre, without any ex- 

 pense of building, a permanent rent, and under restri61ions 

 in cropping: confined to cole-seed and corn ; of which, 

 to take seven crops, laying down to grass with the seventh, 

 to remain seven or fourteen years, and when broken up, 

 to lay down an equal quantity of their old farms. This, 

 i<pon the supposition of the grass failing, but if good graz- 

 ing land, to remain unploughed. This system of cropping 

 1 must think much over-doing it, if rich grazing-land is 

 the view. There is a great treasure in the land, and it 

 should have no more tillage than necessary to prepare it 

 for grass; if that grass does not turn out of a luxuriance 

 and sweetness sufficient to carry a full stock of bullocks, 

 then is the time for a tillage system ; but 1 conceive that 

 after seven crops of cole and corn it will not be found ^"a^ 

 bullock-land. All ideas of the fertility being inexhausti- 

 ble are idle and vain ; you cannot make it bad land ; but 

 there is a great difference between common grazing pas- 

 tures, like some in these marslies, and such as will carry 

 an ox of 100 stone. 



The Governor has the agreeable prospedl of taking in 

 300 acres more in six or seven years. The space is fast 

 covering itself with grass ; and wants very little more than 

 to have the cracks silted up*, which adds so considerably 

 to the convenience and value of the land, that if this tra^ 

 was taken in now, it would not let for more than 20S. 

 an acre- ; but a few years hence it will be worth 40s. But 

 to assist the operations of the tide, in thus silting up the 

 creeks, much attention is necessary to accelerate the eifecl; 

 and 1 found Mr. Maitland engaged in this operation: 



* It is proper to observe, that the effed of the water on this const, depj- 

 siting its sediment, is beri cMed si/ii/tg ; which upon the Hiiniber and the 

 Trent, is termed ti/.i)/-///^; tlicy ire the same operation of Nature. These 

 watert arc muddy to an extraordinary degree. 



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