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SAD ROADS. 
Some of the parochial roads, through districts of 
fine land, are so very bad as to be scarcely passable £or 
a traveller, particularly in wet seasons ; and still less so 
for manure. The value and produce of land may be 
much improved by facility of communication ; it must, 
however, be confessed, that some progress is gradually 
making in this species of improvement. 
There is one inconvenience much against improve¬ 
ments in farms, where the old enclosures run very 
small, as from one to three or four acres each, inter¬ 
mixed, and the owners not inclined to accommodate 
etch other, which I am very often sorry to see; but 
when they are disposed so to do, circumstances often 
occur to prevent it, such as part belonging to lease¬ 
hold property, and part to freehold. An act of parlia¬ 
ment, appointing commissioners for such purposes, in 
general might remedy it.— Mr. Oldacre. 
COMMON FIELDS AND WASTE LANDS. 
These, in their present state of intermixture and un- 
appropriation, can hardly be expected to be much im¬ 
proved, it being a business in which a whole neigh¬ 
bourhood cannot easily be brought to join cordially ; 
they will scarcely arrive at their highest improvement 
but by subdivision and enclosure. 
As ignorance is one of the greatest obstacles to im¬ 
provement, the way to remove it must be the dissemi¬ 
nation 
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