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the mercy of the weather, and liable to be overflowed in windy weather at ecvery moment?

General ſtate f labour, Sc.— The cultivated part of the fens of Huntingdonſhire, is comparatively ſo ſmall, as to have little or no effect, on the price of labour, in other parts of the county, notwithſtanding there are very few habitations for labourers within its limits; for the harveſt generally comes in after the hurry of the high land harveſt is over; and a great part of what is really cultivated, is held by farmers not reſident in the fens, as appendages to their high coun- try farms, in the ſame pariſfhes; and of courſe, ſo far as they are concerned, the bufineſs is carried on by their con- ſtant labourers and own hired ſervants; and the waggons, carts, and other implements, except ploughs, are generally the ſame in both places;—but thoſe farmers who reſide in the fens, make uſe of no carts, but light waggons, which are drawn by two mares abreaſt, with a pole, one ſide of the waggon being made of looſe boards, which are taken out, when it is wanted for the carriage of dung; and this the driver commonly ſpreads upon the land from the wag-

gon, it either having been firſt thrown into large heaps in

che yard, or carried into ſtill larger heaps to ſome inter- mediate ſpot.

Rent.— The average rent of the fens in Huntingdon- ſhire, is about 105. per acre, ſfubject to tithes, reckoning only upon the cultivated part, and excluding, therefore, about three fourths of the whole quantity, which may probably produce about one ſhilling or eighteen-pence per acre on the average; but l know that very many acres yield no rent at all. The lowneſs of the rent, is to be ac- counted for, by the uncertain ſtate of the drainage; and when it is confidered, that the ſeed time depends entirely upon the weather, inſomuch that l have known the land

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