2. MEANS OE IMPROVEMENIT.

The reader is now in poſſeſfion of the moſt correct ae- count, I can give him, of the general ſtate of agriculture in the county of Huntingdon and the conclufion to be drawn is, that much improvement may be made, 1. by draining the fens, the neceſſary conſequence of which will be the drain- ing of the Skirty Land; 2. by incloſing the open fields; and, 3. by extending the beſt poffible ſyſtem of huſbandry to every part of the county, when the fens are better drained, and the remaining open fields are incloſed.

1. Improvement in the qrainage of the fens.— A very great improvement has been brought about in part of the fens of Lincolnfhire, Cambridgeſhire, and Northamptonſhire, which directly applies by comparifon, to thoſe which are at this moment, either in a precarious or an unprofitable ſtate; and Ithink it my duty, not to let ſo material a fact, go unex- plained, in a work of this nature. The three counties laſt mentioned, and the county now under conſideration, meet nearly at a point, fo as to give to each of them, a fhare of an immenſe level, containing 600,000 acres of land, of which the Great Bedford Level forms a part. The Great Bedford Level is fabdivided into three, which, for diſtinc- tion ſake, are called the South, the Middle, and the North Levels. The North Level is ſituated North of the river Nene, and conjointly with the waters ef other great parts of the 600,000 acres, its waters are diſcharged, not into the river Nene, but into the bay, called Metaris Eſtuarium, at 2

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