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obſervations.

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the celebrated villa of the Earl of Mansfield, is not more

y h beauty of its fituation, than the rich- elds about it; in the cultivation of which, its late Sorwi owner took particular pleaſure. In Ahis he is likely to be imitated by his reſpectable ſucceſſor, who alſo PropO oſes Paying Pa articular attention to tne 111- provement of the breed of cattle to be kept there. Sir Joſeph Banks, the Preſident of the Royal Society, fre- quently reſides, during the ſummer ſeaſon, at Spring- Grove, in this county, where he is trying many experl- ments for the improvement of wool,&c. the reſult of which, it would be deſirable to have inſerted, when the account, of which this paper is merely the outline, enters more into detail.

Rent. The rent varies according to the ſituation and quality of the ground, and other circumſtances which muſt be taken into confideration. Perhaps there is no county in England, where the value of farming kan as it may be

called, in contradiſtinction to nurſery grounds, Xc. differs ſo much as in Middleſex. Indeed, lands of the ſame quality and goodneſs, ſhall, in one ſituation, let, on an average, for 31. an acre, whilſt others uſed for the ſelf ſame purpoſe, not more than a mile diſtant, and having the ſame market to go to, do not fetch on an average more than 20s. The average rent of land in the pariſhes of Heſton, Bedfont, Stanwell, and many others in the neighbourhood of Hounflow Heath, does not exceed 205. per acre. Even near London, ſome few who rent under old leafes, do not pay above 505. per acre. In the common fields ncar Ful- ham, the rent is 37. Incloſed land pays 41. Garden ground walled in, from 5l. to 87. and it is ſaid in the neighbourhood of Chelſea and Kenſington, even 107. but the rent in that caſe is regulated by the quantity of walls and fruit trees thereon, and not by the bare value of the

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