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. See IN a tract of country, an hundred miles

HILLs, in length, it is scarcely possible, that a uni-

) Hints formity of practice, even su pposing the prac-

OLDS of tice of the whole to have had the same origin,

should be found, after the series of centuries

of the which these hills, probably, have been in a th their_ State of cultivation. Yet the eye, in a cur- are the sory view of them, perceives little variety LLING, of management: except towards the eastern In Sure extremity; where the Thanet, or East- med| Kent practice extends, More or less, over makin the hills: a practice which is evidently ofa are, the different growth, if not of a different root, ears: from the present practice of the West-Kent ao and Surrey hills.

extends,

; FARMS.| The major part, of the lands ey of these hills, is laid out into farms of the realy most desireable sizer: namely, from one to two cr three hundred pounds, a year.

In a country, where the sheepfold is the farmer's dependence, for his arable crops, and where parochial flocks are not formed, a small farm is less eligible, than one which is able to maintain a flock, large enough to employ the attention of a regular shep- herd.

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