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this purpose, to any oak or ash sapling rails whatever. They make very light and useful bars for inward gates for farmers, and with oak heads will last many years. I have corded a great deal of this wood, where it is not kind enough for riving for farming purposes, and it charrs very well.

«As to my rein deer moss land, as you termed it, I must say, bad and barren as it is naturally, it has for years worn its present coat, from the circumstance of its having been, till within these last twenty years, a turbary for generations; and I have known persons, who, getting turf upon it, have pared the same land three times over in the same day for fuel; so little was coal the fuel for poor cottagers, or even the better farmers, sixty years ago, where turf could be got. The turf and cutting it came to about fourteen pence per load in my memoty.

«© The waste ofen moors might and would be in their present state tolerably drained, if the waters in the Fosdike were not so kept up. My drainage is, for the most part, in- dependent of this source of obstruction to all improvements; but I trust the late Lincoln navigation act will, in spite of every obstacle, be very useful to the drainage of the moor land. 1 suppose there may be 10,000 acres of open waste moorland between Newark and Bracebridge by Lincoln, including Swinderby, Thurlby, and other lordships in Lincolnshire and ,Nottinghamshire; the Scarles, Gerton, Spaldforth, Wigsley, Harby, Clifton, Swinethorp, Sax- elby, Broadholm, Thorney,&c.

Iam, dear Sir, Your obedient humble servant,

G. NEVILLE.

« P.S. Since I had the pleasure of seeing you here, have sold ash hop-poles(yesterday) from a plantation on the bad land, at forty shillings per hundred, which I only

mention to shew that ash poles may be grown to advantage &