AGRICULTURE 7

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Commonable lands confidered as an Obfiruction to

A gricul ture.

‘LT noucu the very phrafe commonable lands

is not known in Scotland; either becaufe the

practice which gave rife to the name was not there perhaps ever in any cafe ftrictly adopted, or,

if it was of old adopted, it had been diftinguifhed by another name; yet this practice fo univerfally

prevails, either in a greater or fmaller degree, throughout every county in England, that‘it comes forward in each of thefe furveys in a very confpicuous manner. From the fuppofed noto- riety of the prattice, as I fuppofe, Ido not find that one perfon, among all thofe furveyors, has fo much as attempted to give a definition of the phrafe. It is not difficult, however, from the notices concerning it that are fcattered through thefe reports, to form, as I hope, a tolerably juft idea of the meaning of the phrafe. Commonable lands t underftand to mean lands generally arable, at leaft in part, which belong

In property to Individuals who are known, and

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