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copyhold, or what other tenures and services his Majesty shall please;to chap. vii.accept of". ^-'

" As much improvement has been made upon Windsor Forest, .under the auspices ofour amiable Sovereign, F flatter myself that an extract from Mr. Kent’s judicious accountof the management of these forest lands, will be highly acceptable to the Public.

“ In the year 1791, the Great Park at Windsor, about 4000 acres, fell into his Majesty's“ pofsefsion. It might truly be called a rough jewel. The whole, as a natural objefl, was« grand and beautiful, of a forest appearance ■, but the parts were crowded and indistinct.

“ The soil was various, some parts clay and loam, and some sharp gravel or poor sand;. a“ great part of the former .was covered with rushes and molehills, and .the latter with fern“ and mofs.

“ About 1000 acres of the lightest part was separated from the rest atone extremity, and“ formed what is called the Norfolk Farm : about ,400 acres more, at the other extremity,

“ of a good loamy soil, were separated, and called the Flemish,Farm , both being named“ from the nature of the husbandry meant to be adopted upon them.

“ The rest (about 2400 acres) remains still in Plantations and ; Park; and though so“ much reduced, yet, from the improvements, which have been made upon it, is now“ capable of carrying more stock than the whole 4000 acres did before. All the unsound“ wet parts have been drained by the Efsex mode, so as to be rend.ered.finn,.and productive“ of an improved herbage. The molehills have been levelled, chiefly by dragging, and“ the coarse and mofsj parts fined by repeated harrowing and rolling; (being one of the“'first improvements upon Park Land of this description;) besides which, a variety of“ beauty has been laid open, by clearing the valleys and low parts, to give a bolder effect“ to the woody scenes upon the higher ground; and by making judicious openings, so as“ to break strait lines, and separate parts that were in some places too heavy and samely“ so that the same extent of land has now not only a much larger appearance, but exhibits“ a much greater variety of ground. The truth of this, every impartial person who knew« the place before his Majesty caused these improvements to be made, must allow. I have“ only to add, that though prejudice, may have taken up an idea that there has been too“ great a sacrifice of limber in effecting these improvements, truth will deny it. There“ has not been a tree taken down, but what was either in decay, or removed either to give“ room for the growth of others, or to set them off to greater advantage in picturesque“ appearance.

“ I come now to the object in view, as before hinted, which is to state the motives“ which I am inclined to think induced bis Majesty to adopt the farming system upon so“ large a scale, and next to show the result.—.—These I conceive were chiefly to create“useful labour to the industrious poor in the neighbourhood, and.for trying experiments“ in Agriculture, to excite imitation where succefs might encourage-it.

“The Norfolk Farm borders -on that extensive waste called Bagshot-heath, hitherto“ considered too barren for cultivation, though large tracts of a similar quality have been“ long since rendered useful to the community in the south-west part of Norfolk Arable“ land of this description is generally managed there under a five-course shift; first wheat*■'“.second, turneps; third, barley with seeds, .which continue laid two.years. But as the

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