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for mutual aid and affiftance. Wherever the produce of the fields are fo fcanty, as to require a very wide range for the beafts which pick up that produce, unlefs the occupier of the land be able to ftock fuch an extent of land, as to afford to Reep a perfon, by himfelf, to tend his own flocks, an intercommongae tenants, if fuch there fhall be on that ground, be- comes abfolutely neceffary. Wherever the num: ber of cows that can be kept by one tenant are too few to eat down the produce of any{ to avoid the neceffity of frittering it to pieces by rearing innumerable fences for very{mall inclo- fures, it will be for the mutual convenience of al] parties, to have the meadow laid open to the

vhole of thefe fmall tenants, as foon as the hay

can be carried off from it. I might go on to quote other particulars, in which this kind of

partial intercommonage might be convenient:

- Look See SSS ae as feof Gl Beye= but. thofe above ftated, are fufficient to account 5{] Xx

map tl BY a Seige a aes ee|> ahs 7 Ufa| for the origin of commonable lands. and to thow oF

that the practice was not only neceflary, at the

time when it was firft eftablifhed; but that, unde1

the fame circumftances. it is equally neceflary

He SES Hiesnen 9 p Wee sate e yaar jae pect es,: now, and muit continue to be fo tul the end of

. see 2 1 ime 4{+ ¢ Nation{¢ lz time, UW the{tate of occupation on thefe lands 3 i ": : i a4}} yy fhall continue to be the fam