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General view of the agriculture of the county of Somerset : with observations on the means of its improvement. Drawn up in the year 1795, for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By John Billingsley, Esq; ... and now re-printed with considerable additions and amendments, .. / John Billingsley
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SOMERSETSHIRE.

CHAPTER E

GEOGRAPHICAL STATE AND

TD DOTTMoOTANO CIRCUMSTAN(

ES UL De Qnm RIE RS 2A eL À 2 D Vr A DECT. I.—o¿tuatiion and LXxtent,

QO MERSETSHIRE is a maritime county, in the South-weſt part of England, having the Briſtol Channel e W eſt—Glouceſterſhire, and the— and county of Briſtol, on the North—Wiltſhire on the Eaft—and Devon- ſhite on the South and South-Weſt.

Îts 1s oblong, Heng in leneth from North-eaſt to South-weſt So miles—in breadth from Eaßt to Weſt about 36 miles—and in circumference about 200 miles.

The reporter cannot with abſolute preciſion fate the total amount of acres, or the number of mhabitants, in this county; but he conceives the former to be about one million of âcres, and the latter about three hundred thouſand. The average value per acre of the incloſed and cultivated land is not leſs now than twenty-five ſhillings per annum; and at

Revolution the CE 4 deoah value was*CtfrAceA

37 5,0001.

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