have observed in many parts of England to be as good land as any of
the neighbouring enclosures, as capable of improvement, and to as
good purpose.

These lands only being enclosed and manured, leaving the roads to
dimensions without measure sufficient, are the fund upon which I
build the prodigious stock of money that must do this work. These
lands (which I shall afterwards make an essay to value), being
enclosed, will be either saleable to raise money, or fit to exchange
with those gentlemen who must part with some land where the ways are
narrow, always reserving a quantity of these lands to be let out to
tenants, the rent to be paid into the public stock or bank of the
undertakers, and to be reserved for keeping the ways in the same
repair, and the said bank to forfeit the lands if they are not so
maintained.

Another branch of the stock must be hands (for a stock of men is a
stock of money), to which purpose every county, city, town, and
parish shall be rated at a set price, equivalent to eight years'
payment, for the repair of highways, which each county, &c., shall
raise, not by assessment in money, but by pressing of men, horses,
and carriages for the work (the men, horses, &,c., to be employed by
the directors); in which case all corporal punishments--as of
whippings, stocks, pillories, houses of correction, &c.--might be
easily transmitted to a certain number of days' work on the
highways, and in consideration of this provision of men the country
should for ever after be acquitted of any contribution, either in
money or work, for repair of the highways--building of bridges
excepted.