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on that subject. The improvements are as various as the circumstances under which we find the lordships to be inclosed; the difference proceeds from the disproportion of their soil, quantity of commons, goodness of, or im- practicability of making good roads without an enormous expence, contiguity to markets,&c.

A lordship chiefly consisting of good land, with exten- sive commons belonging thereto, may be said to be the most capable of improvement; a clay one, with a great quantity of common, the next; and a clay one, with scarcely any open common, the least of all; though even the worst, upon an average, will increase about one-fourth in value, after deduétion of all expences attending the in- closure, whilst some lordships, under the first description, in a few years have more than doubled their value before inclosure.

We have lands in this neighbourhood, which, I am certain, might be considerably improved by watering, provided the practice was introduced so that the labourers and servants could be instructed in cutting the Carriers; but unless a person was constantly attendant he would not have the work done properly. I hope, by means of the Board of Agriculture, and their communications, that practice, as well as other useful ones, will be made general.

You will readily observe, from the irregular and de- tached way in which I have placed my observations, that [have not had time to arrange them properly; but have put them down as they occured to my mind; this| know your goodness will readily excuse, provided only one hint may prove serviceable to your endeavours; and be assured, should the least benefit be derived from any communication I have the honour to transmit, I shall receive ample gra~ tification in being the means of throwing@ mite into the treasury.

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