Sect. I. The Public and Parochial Roads, 71

II. The Public Markets for the Sale

of the Produce of the Country, 90

III. Some Remarks on the Former and

Exifting Corn-Laws,

IV. The Importance of establishing a

Uniformity of Weights and

Measures,

CHAP. XXXII.

Obftacles to further Improvements in Agri-

culture, and the means by which thefe

may be most effectually removed,

98

107

Se&. I. The Payment of Tithes in Kind, 114

II. The Poor's Laws and Poor's

CHAP. XXXIII.

Improvements fuggefted, and the best Means

to be adopted, for encouraging that Spi

rit for Agricultural Improvement which

is at prefent fo general pointed out,

Mifcellaneous Obfervations, containing fome

Remarks on the proper Management of

269

Eftates,

Conclufion,

341

377

Vol. I. p. 35. 1. 21. dele with.

- II. p. 32. 1. 27. for breath, read breathe.

.III.

p. 98. 1. 14. for made, read moved.
..1..

p. 212. 1. 17. for burnings, read limings.

p. 409. 1. 19. in fome copies for colour, read labour. P. 8. 1. 10. for clear, read clean.

p. 81. 1. 20. after and, add on each

acre.

p. 90. 1. 6. for ill-conftructed, read ill-conduded..
P. 149. 1. 30. for Kyler, read Kyloe.
p. 153. 1. 6. for quality, read quantity.
P. 154. 1. 22. for of, read on.

p. 156. 1. 6. for curls,read turls.

p. 157. 1. 7. for breeding, read fattening.

IV. p. 44. 1. 7. for Hamptonshire, read Hampshire.
p. 65. 1. 7. in place of "the intended new ridges are
cut across the field, and new ridges again formed
in the manner before described," read "the fur-
rows are cut across the ridge, the labourers be-
ginning at one end and working to the other;
but no alteration is made in the original direc
tion of the ridges."

MODERN

MODERN AGRICULTURE;

OR, THE

PRESENT STATE OF HUSBANDRY

IN

GREAT BRITAIN.

CHAP. XXIX.

General Obfervations on the prefent State of the Forefts and Woodlands in Great Britain.

THE means by which the cultivation of our

THE

fields may be improved having been de scribed at confiderable length, another fubject, "the State of the Forefts and Woodlands," now demands attention. This, it is true, does not fo materially concern the cultivators of the foil in the character of farmers as many others that have fallen under review; but, confidering the prefent complexion of the times *, it must in a VOL. IV. particular

A

* A threatened invafion by the combined powers of France, Spain, and Holland.

particular manner intereft every freeborn Britain, who is anxious to retain that independence for which his forefathers on many occafions feverely bled, and which can only be preferved by our preserving the fuperiority at fea.

"The Royal Navy of England (fays the great Blackstone) hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural ftrength; the floating bulwark of the island; an army from which, however ftrong and powerful, no danger can be apprehended to liberty; and accordingly it has been affiduously cultivated even from the earliest ages *."

In this fuppofed ftrength, however, we feem to have indulged ourselves till we have become indolent, and have forgotten that our ftore is not inexhaustible, or that there are people in other countries who, envying our liberty and our property, wish to turn our neglect to their advantage.

From the observations contained in the first volume refpecting the fupply of wood in each county for agricultural and other purposes, and particularly refpecting the actual state of what are called the Royal Forefts, neither the prefent stock of timber, nor the means of future supply, appear to be fuch as to give the inhabitants of a country, which, without a respectable

*Blackstone's Commentaries, vol. i. p. 417.

navy,