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Agricultural Statistics. 
county maps, states the area of Ireland at 19,436,000 acres. 
The table furnished by Mr. Griffith, the engineer, to the Lords' 
Committee on Tithe, founded partly on the Ordnance survey, 
and partly on other authentic data, gives the total acreage as 
20,399,608 acres. The recent Statistical Returns, showing 
only the land under crop, do not assist in the correction of the 
general acreage. 
We have thus an approximate total of about 77 millions 
. of acres as the gross acreage of the United Kingdom. In the 
article by Mr. Pusey, in the first number of this Journal, be- 
fore referred to, the cultivated acres are set down at 48 millions, 
which would leave, at that date (1838), twenty-nine millions of 
acres of waste land, more or less capable of cultivation. Mr. 
Pusey does not state the proportion of the figures he gives to the 
actual gross acreage. According to our present means of calcu- 
lation, being for Ireland and Scotland almost complete, in respect 
of the cultivated portions (including meadow and inclosed pas- 
ture land), though for England and Wales only approximate, the 
account would be nearly as follows : — 
* Cultivated Acres 
V (Arable and Pasture). 
Ireland 5,700,000 
. - ■ Scotland 4,800,000 
England and Wales, say .. ..31,500,000 
Total 42,000,000 
The remaining portion may be, in round figures, stated 
generally thus : — 
Acres. 
Woods and Plantations .. ., 2,000,000 
Sheepwalk (Scotland) .. .. 7,000,000 
Uninclosed Pasture (Ireland) .. 8,000,000 
Peat and Red Bog (Ireland) .. 3,000,000 
Other Waste, saj^ 12,000,000 
Islands 3,000,000 
77,000,000 
If this distribution of the acreage be near the truth, there 
is nothing very surprising in the computation of Gregory King,t 
in 1685, that at the time when he wrote, the arable and 
pasture of England did not amount to much more than half the 
* The term ' cultivated ' applied to pasture will be understootl, in its proper 
sense, as distinguishing that dressed and attended to from what is left in a state of 
nature. Its frequent application, in the narrower sense, to tillage and garden only, 
is a source of some confusion, occasionally, in land-statistics. The tenn ' land 
under crop ' used in the Irish Statistical Tables, as including meadow and clover, 
is perhaps as good as any. 
t Gregory King, the draughtsman, herald, political economist, and statist, died 
iu 1712. See Fuller's Worthies (Staffordshire), vol. iii., p. 157. 
