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sand acres of hop-ground, and, perhaps, about a third 
of this quantity (two thousand acres) may be estimated 
as adequate to the injury the ground crops sustain from 
the trees; these making together eight thousand acres ; 
and may be supposed to produce this year, calculating 
by the former statement of the exports, as follows:—- 
By hops (the lowest average price cannot 
be set down, now, at less than 3l. 10s. per 
.cwt. and six cwt. per acre - - .£.126,000 
By fruit, 58,125 pots, at 4s. - 11,625 
By cyder, 10,000 hogsheads, at 3l. - - 30,000 
By perry, 1000 ditto, at 5l. iOs. - - 5,500 
Amounting in the whole to - - -£173,125 
jvhich, upon 8000acres, is considerably more than 2ll, 
per acre.—See the article Commerce. 
To this may be added, a saving in malt to a very con¬ 
siderable amount ; and yet a doubt is very generally 
entertained, whether or not the tenantry at large is be¬ 
nefited by these crops ; yet the same number of acres, 
under a common course of husbandry, in no instance in 
this neighbourhood, produces a sum equal to this, even 
after allowing for the more frequent failures to which 
they are liable. One circumstance, relating to the 
fruit, as more particularly striking, may here be men¬ 
tioned, which is, that the fruit plantations have not 
been considered, by the more numerous part of the 
planters, as producing an article for the market; pro¬ 
vided they are fortunate enough to get the enormous 
supply of liquor necessary for the home consumption, 
without having recourse to the maltster, they rest sa¬ 
tisfied. 
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