For remarks and additional

obſervations.

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The account then will ſtand as follows:

Two third parts of 300, 000 acres, or 200,000 acres at 75.

One third part of 300,000 acres, or 100,000 1 85 2 7,

500 acres at 15. 64d. 5 Suppoſed rent of the whole 772500

At a moderate computation, the whole when properly drained would produce an actual rent †* 22 5,000 of 155. per acre,

Annual advantage to be gained by the pro- prietors, L. 147,500

The public at large, however, from the additional quan- tity of the articles produced, as corn, wool,&c. or by their increaſed value when manufactured, muſt gain at leaſt four times as much, or about half a million per annam.

For farther obſervations on this great ſubject, one of the

moſt important conne ded with the agriculture of many ex-

tricts in the kingdom, the reader is referred to the

tenſive diſ Appendix; where the objections likely to be adduced againſt this great ſource of improvement(a proper outfal at the port of Lynn) are, I truſt, fully refuted.

2. Improvement by incloſare.— On this head of improvement, it is the leſs neceſſary to trouble the reader, as no reaſoning is required, to enforce the propriety of incloſures(though it is owing to the good ſenſe of the legiflature, that as violent op⸗ pofitions to them are not made, as any that can be brought

forward againſt other deſcriptions of improvement), and as

/2 he author will have another opportunity of ſtating his ſen- b 4

timents upon the fabject, in the account which he intends

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* There are inſtances even in Huntingdonſhire, where fen land is let as high as two pounds an acre, with privileges of plowing which are not ſuited to that good order one would wiſh to ſee generally eſtabliſhed.

2. moren 3. Improved

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