ZIO AGRICULTURAL SURVEY de 1 are turning their attention to this important ſubjed, the W there 1s no doubt that ſome plan will be fallen upon by( on W which both the public and the individual may reap the ſent! full benefit of theſe, at préſent, dreary waſtes, which are a ees reproach and diſgrace to the nation.‘But it.cannot be Thes expected that any meaſure however wiſe, or any Propo the| fal however advantageous, can meet with univerſal appro- reCeiN barion. Tí will probably be reprobated by ſome whoſe fury préjudices it will alarm, and with whoſe little intereſts it Y may be ſuppoſed to claſh. Till ſomething of greater con- D ſequence be accompliſhed, the reduction of the ſtint, eV where ſuch is already eſtabliſhed, or the eſtabliſhment of Jeet a moderate ſtint upon commons that are perfedly free, ſhes cught not to be delayed one hour; ſor at preſent they are dt of little, if of any uſe, either to thoſe having a right of 1 commonage, or to the nation at large, ö Æ A general inclolure-bill for the whole kingdom would n ſave the expence of ſeparate applications to parliament n for the diviſion of particular commons, but there are T many barren and rocky commons that would not be in| any wiſe benefited by inclofures; and although the in-: A tereſts of a few individuals ought to give way to thoſe of y the community, there are numerous inſtances where both| ht: would be injured by the operation of ſuch a bill; for it P would at once be ruinous to many proprietors to be oblig- ed to incloſe each his ſhare, often at an expence greater k not only than the value of that ſhare, but in ſome inſtan- D ces sreater than the value of the fee-fimple of that farm) Or fe in right of which he claims, and prejudicial to| the public, by interrupting the ſheep-walks upon the( mountainous diſtricts, which ought to be as free and open 1 as poſlible. Y The principal part of the ſtock kept upon the com- mons conſiſts of ſheep, either of the breed of the county, pr or brought from Scotland."The ewes are wintered in N

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