Wheat 4s. turnep land, barley 4s. oats, peafe, beans, and vetches, 2 s. Mowing ground, 25. Poor rates is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. in the pound. The employment of the poor women and children is a little spinning, and but little : All drink tea.. The farmers carry their corn about ten. miles, that is, to Hertford; fome fix miles, to St. Albans. Terms various, from feven to twentyone years. LABOUR. In harvest, 365. to 37s. for a month, and board. In hay time, 1s. 6d. a day. In winter, Is. 2d. Reaping wheat, 5s. to 10s.. Mowing barley and oats, 1 s. 6d. to 2s. Hoeing turneps, 4s. 6d. to 5s. 6d. Threshing wheat, 2s. 2s. 6d. and 3s, a quarter, barley, Is. to Is. 6d. and 1s, 8 d. a quarter, oats, Is. Amount of a year's earnings, 251. to 30%. First man's wages, from 10l. to 127. 12s. Second ditto, 71. to 91. Boy of ten or twelve years, 27. 25. to 27. 10s. Maids, 41. to 5, 10s. Bb 4 Women Women per day in harvest, 1s. in hay time, 102, in winter, 6d. IMPLEMENTS, &c. A cart, 10l. to 127. A three wheeled ditto, 67. 6s. to 77. A harrow, I. Ios. to 21. PROVISIONS, &c. Soap, 7 d. Labourer's houfe rent, 21. to 51. firing, turf, ling, heath, &c. tools, 7s. 6d. From this flight sketch, it is evident, we have much to amend in common with our neighbours. And And now, having at last brought the regifter of this tour to a conclufion, you must next allow me to make fuch general remarks on the fubftance of the intelligence, as are requifite for the deduction of useful maxims; without these, this long ramble would lofe much of the benefit which I apprehend may be extracted from it; but of that you will, from the fucceeding letters, be a better judge, I am, &c. LET. LETTER XXIV. UPON reviewing the particulars of this journey, I am ftruck with a vaft variety of materials, that call for fuch an examination, that I am in pain at the undertaking: I have hitherto given the mere register of a journey, and inserted in it a variety of articles, with an eye to reduce all to averages, and from them to draw fuch conclufions as their nature dictated: But now the grand object is before me, I want several penetrating political arithmeticians at my elbow to point out the combinations between different, and seemingly distinct circumstances, too many of which will, I fear, escape me; however, relying on your candour, I shall attempt this part of my undertaking, and offer fuch remarks as appear to me to be demanded by the preceding intelligence. The firft circumstance I shall examine is the foil, the rent of it, and the product in grain, viz. wheat, rye, barley, and oats. I keep these distinct from pulse, roots, &c. as they in general depend (with many exceptions, however) on the richness of the foil; whereas beans, turneps, &c. receive amazing variations from culture scarce ever given to grain. From |