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Knowledge and experience of one another, would not only be an excellent ſchool for the obſervation of others, but would prove the ſureſt and moſt rapid means, of bringing the ground to the higheſt pitch of cultivation.

But whatever method may be adopted, it is certain that the incloſing and improving this very extenſive waſte is an object of great national concern, and ſhould be paid im- mediate attention to. The pariſh of Stanwell hath begun; and why ſfhould not the other pariſhes follow ſo good an example?— Almoſt the whole of the heath is ſacrificed to a few opulent farmers who live on the borders of it, and put on immenſe numbers of greyhound-like ſheep, that hunt about for their food, and devour with avidity every pile of graſs they can meet with. Theſe, with a few cottagers who cut turf or fuel for ſale*, and keep a parcel of ragged ſhabby horſes, that are continually breaking into the neighbouring fields, and doing miſchief to their neigh- bours, are the only perſons who have any benefit by the commons lying in their preſent uncultivated ſtate. There are a confiderable number of reſpectable perſons, who, in virtue of their property in ſome one of the neighbouring pariſhes, are entitled to a right upon the commons, but they live ſo remote from it, that they cannot receive any advantage by it; conſequently, in its preſent ſtate, it can be of no value to them; or, at leaſt, it is of ſo little value, that no account, or notice, is taken by them, of the cattle of ſtrangers that may be ſent to graze upon it.

Einchley-common is another extenſive waſte, in which there is large quantities of excellent gravel for roads, but

* In regard to the cutting of fuel, that is mere turf or ſods(for there are no peats that I ever ſaw), that liberty is very much abuſed; it is a common practice for theſe poor cottagers, as well as ſtrangers, to cut turf, under pre- tence that it is for their own houſe uſe, and ſell it to any cuſtomer they can get for it; and their beſt cuſtomers are to be found among the market- gardeners, who conſume it in their hot-houſes.

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