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TO venture to point out the methods, by which the pre- ſent ſtate of agriculture in Aille eſex might be improved, confidering the very high degree of cultivation which it has already attained, at 1 in ſome parts of it, in conſe— quence of the many concurring circumſtances in its favour, might be conſidered perhaps preſumptuous and unneceſſa Ary. I fhall hazard, however, with great deference, the follow- ing ſhort obſervations.

Hardly any in farther ſeems material to add, to the obſervations already made on the improvement of the waſte lands. To that great object, the attention of the Board 9f 4 Agriculture will naturally be directed: and a happy circumſtance it will be, if, under their au ſpices, every acre this, and in every other county in Great Britain, is brought under ſome uſeful and Piostarle mode of ocou- Pation. On this head, however, it is impoffible to omit men-

tioning, the very important obſervation made by Dr. Wil- kinſon of Enfield, who thinks a general mandatory inclo-

ſure-bill abſolutely Weees. The grand obſtacle to the incloſing of commons ariſes, fromther unpopularity, to which gentlemen who are ive: in the cauſe, expoſe themſelves in their own neighbourhood, from the diſconteut of the poor, when any ſuch queſtion is agitated. No Vo eeariten to ſuch a meaſure, however, would be made, if ſanctioned by the edri of parliament, and enforced by the united wiſdom of the Britiſh legiſlature.

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