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ceſſity of leaving their farms, and the old farm-buildings (Gery ſhabby ones) were either pulled down, or left to fall into ruins; but the ſtones are reſerved for new buildings. The depopulation of ſo great an extent of country, Iying almoſt contiguous, raiſed at firſt a loud outcry againſt the proprietor. Nothing elſe indeed could be expeded from People unacquainted with the nature of extenſive and vigo- rous Improvements in agriculture. But the voice of the public has already very deſervedly changed its tone. It now appears, even to the moſt inattentive obſerver in this diſtriett, that innovations upon old cuſtoms in agri- culture are for the moſt part neither unreaſonable nor diſ- advantageous. The improvements carrying on here give daily bread to a great number of induſtrious labourers, and the numerous advantages that will be derived from them to the community, eſpecially in the immediate neighbourhood, are now obvious to all. The lands will probably contain double the number of their former inhabitants, as well as yield three or four times their former produce, and a ſpirit for improvements will be widely difuſed, That great extent of land, at the expiration of the old leaſes, was unincloſed, the ridges extremely broad, crooked and high raiſed, and the roads to the farms were miſerably bad. Lime, ſammer- fallow, and ſown grafſes, made no part, or but a very im- perceptible one, in the old ſytem. Every impediment to the improvement of this eſtate being at length happily re-- moved, and the land wholly occupied by the proprietor, chiefy in-grazing cattle, the ſyſtem of incloſing commen- ced, on a ſcale ſo extenſive and ſo regular, that it is perhaps unparalleled in any eſtate of arable land of equal extent in the iland. The lines of the incloſures are all ftraight and at right angles with one another; and many of them run on in the ſame diredion without interruption for ſeveral miles. The ridges follow the ſtraight courſe of the fences, for which the ſituation of the ground correſponds remarkably well. Several roads, parallel'to each other, are drawn the whole length of the eſtate, and theſe are interſeted at right angles

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