1. PRESENT SIAIE OF IHE GCOUNV.

For remarks and additional Obſervations.

Extent of tbe county.— The general ſtate of thie county at preſent, is nearly as follows: it conſiſts of 106 towns and hamlets, each of which(according to the beſt information I have been able to collect), after deducting the fens and ſkirty lands, may contain, on an average, about 1, 500 acres, making in all nearly 160,000 acres; which, when added to the 49,000 acres before-mentioned of fen and ſkirty lands, the county may be ſuppoſed to contain in all about 210,000 acres, including woodlands. Other calcu- lations, however, carry its extent confiderably higher.

Incloſed aiſiricts.— Of the 105 towns and hamlets above- mentioned, forty-one are wholly incloſed, and alſo a very conſiderable portion of the others; hence, after a deduction for woodlands, it may fairly be preſumed, that about one half of the high land parts of the county is unincloſed: The remaining half being incloſed, is conſequently in a ſtate that enables the occupiers to uſe it in the moſt ad- vantageous manner that the ſoil admits of. To ſay that the beſt poſſible management is practiſed, would be going a great deal too far; but the county of Huntingdon, may fairly put in its claim, to be confſidered as one of thoſe diſtricks, which are approaching to ſomewhat like per- feion; for, independent of the good quality of the dif- ferent ſpecies of corn it produces, which, perhaps, is fully as much owing to ſome inherent principle in the ſoil it- ſelf, as to any other circumſtance; few parts of the ifland, af the facts relating to other counties were fairly ſtated,

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