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different wards in the city, hired people to clean their ſtreets, now they receive confiderable ſums for a grant of that pri- vilege. 30 years ago, dung ſold for 3d. a load, 15 years ago at 9d. 10 years ago at 1s. and now common ſtable dung is at an average about 2s. and the finer ſorts, as bones, aſhes,&c. from 4 to 5s5. The expence of carriage on the turnpike roads, may be calculated at 25. per mile der load, when it is even back freight, but the barges on the Thames, ſupply the cultivators near the banks of the river, at a much cheaper rate, about 6d. per mile per load. It requires from 20 to 24 loads of fermented dung, or 35 loads of freſh dung, to manure an acre. Gardeners manure twice every three years; huſbandmen only once. The expence is from. 5. to.9. per acre, according to the diſtance, Xc.

Praprietors.—8In diſtricts ſituated in the neighbourhood of a metropolis, where the ground is rich and valuable, it may always be expected, that the land fhould be divided into ſmall portions, and Middleſex accordingly is poſſeſſed by a great number of proprietors. Of theſe, his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, enjoys, in the neighbour- hood of his well-known villa at Sion, the moſt conſiderable property, of any amongſt the nobility; and the grounds there, notwithſtanding the abſence and bad health of its noble owner, are kept in very excellent order. Of the commoners, Kichard Page, Eſq. of Wimbley-Park, James Clitherow, Eſq, of Boſton-Houſe, and Thomas Wood, Eſq. of Littleton, are to be reckoned among the greatelt proprietors; their placcs of refidence are diſtinguiſhed by peculiar neatneſs; and the poſſeſſion of conſiderable pro- perty in land, ſo near a luxurious capital, by landlords who attend to the improvement of their eſtates, and the com- fort of the people about them, is no unpleaſing circum- ſtance to mention. Caen—, or more properly Ken-wood,

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