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mer article, with the exception of the value of the Win= ter's Keeping, and ſce how little remains for the rent of the land.

Ït is not poſſible to place this matter in a more ſtriking point of view than by repeating, that on ſeveral commons the liberty of keeping an ox, or ten ſheep, for a whole year, may be hired for fxpence.

Improvement of Waffles by Liming.—Great portions of many of theſe might be improved at a ſmall expence by the application of lime, which is found in moſt parts of the county, and might be cultivated with the certainty of great advantage, When pltoughed, great care ought to- be taken tó adopt a proper ſucceſlion of crops, and to lay the lands down with graſs ſeeds in 2 very few years; becaufe, when exhauſted by over-cropping, they are reduced to a worſe ſtate than they were in before, and there is no way yet diſcovered of preparing lands for a repetition of a hearty doſe of lime

By Paring and Burning—Many of the level moory parts might be converted into arable lands by paring and burning, which are well underſtood by ſeveral perſons in the county, and have been praiſed with more or leſs ſucceſs on ſome private eſtates

By Planting.— There are many thouſands of acres ute terly incapable of cultivation by the plough; and, in the

paper prefixed, the Biſhop of LandaÆ has ſhown, in a manner equally ingenious and novel, with what advan- tage theſe might be covered with wood. It is well known that trees flouriſh with the greateſt vigour on ſoils far more barrén, and in climates much colder, than that of Weſtmoreland. There are ſtately oaks at Niagara, which, though not in a high laticude, experience a degree of cold in Winter far beyond what is ever felt in this conn- try- On the weſtern coaſt of America, in latitude 612, the very ſummits of the hills are covered with wood, and

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