The Rural Life of England

CHAPTER IV.

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Forest Enclosures -- Injuries to the Arts, Manufactures, and the Intellectual Taste of the Public to be apprehended from such Enclosures -- Logic of Lawyers and Land-Surveyors -- Open Lands needed for Public Enjoyment -- that Open Lands are Unproductive, shewn to be a very false Notion -- the Unchristian Principle on which Enclosures have been conducted -- Enclosures inimical to our National Interests -- Numbers who seek the Refreshment of Summer Visits to our Forests, Coasts, Moors, and Mountains -- the Utilitarian Enclosures of certain Lands recommended 388