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part of theſe is covered wirh ſtrong brackens, and is ſu- perior in quality ro the ſoil of many farms in the neigh- bourhood, and well ſuited to the cultivation of turnips and clover.

This ſpecimen of the commons in Weſtmoreland will, it is hoped, be deemed ſufficient; for it would be tedious and painful to enuinerate them all. It is difficult to be- hold the deſolate ſtate in which they lie, without ſurpriſe at the nation having ſo long delayed taking meaſures for their improvement. The waſtes and commons in this CQUDÍY, and throughout England in generakh, have been elegantly called 2 public treofure in the hands of private perſons x it is to be hoped that the time is not very diſ- tant when this important treaſure ſhall be opened, and its contents ſhall prove egually beneficial to the individual, and to the public ât large.

It is impoſſible to look forward without emotion to that day when theſe negle@ed waſtes ſhall have received that degree of improvement of which they are ſuſcepti- ble; when they ſhall wave with valuable crops of corn, bleat with profitable flocks, or be clothed with ſtately tim- ber; E every little rill ſhall be turned out of its na- tural courſe to fertiliſe the neighbouring plain; and when there may E een in every corner the induſtrious huſ- bandman, at once enriching himſelf and advantaging the community in a manner the moſt ſubſtantial!

Contemplating the matter in this view, who but muſt exclaim, what a noble feld for exertion! What a ſource

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Such are the refleQions and obſervations that occurred in a Survey of the ſtate of the ſtock and huſbandry in the county of Weſtmoreland, made in the months of Otober and November 1793, at the requeſt of the newly eßtabliſh-

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