┌──────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┐ │ Arable and │ Meadow, │ Waste │ Waste │ │ │ garden. │pasture, marsh.│ capable of │ incapable of │ Summary. │ │ │ │ improvement. │ improvement. │ │ ├──────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤ │Statute acres.│Statute acres. │Statute acres.│Statute acres. │Statute acres. │ │ 10,252,800 │ 15,379,200 │ 3,454,000 │ 3,256,400 │ 32,342,400 │ └──────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┘ Now as the arable and gardens are all that can possibly be reckoned to the hide, we have these figures: Arable 10,252,800 Meadow, waste, forest, etc. 22,089,600 giving a ratio of 5:11 nearly between the cultivated and uncultivated[176]. ----- Footnote 176: This differs from the result obtained at forty acres, only by the small advance of 7⁄88: or taking Mr. Porter’s tables, of 1⁄22. ----- The actual amount in France is difficult to ascertain, but of the 52,732,428 hectares of which its superficial extent consists, it is probable that about 30,000,000 are under some sort of profitable culture: giving a ratio of rather less than 15:11 between the cultivated and uncultivated: how much of this is arable and garden I cannot exactly determine; but it is probable that a great deal is reckoned to profitable cultivation, which could not have been counted in the hide. Osieries, meadows, orchards, cultivated or artificial grassland, and brushwood, are all sources of profit, and thus are properly included in a _cadastre_ of property which may be tithed or taxed as productive: but they are not strictly what the hide was, and must be deducted in any calculation such as that which is the object of this chapter. We are unfortunately also furnished with inconsistent amounts by different authorities, where the difference rests upon what is reckoned to profitable cultivation, on which subject there may be a great variety of opinion. Still, for a time neglecting these considerations, and making no deduction whatever, it appears that the excess of culture upon the gross sum is only as 15:11 in France[177]. Footnote 177: The hectare is about 2·5 acres. The calculations have been variously made. One is as follows: Total superficies 52,732,428 hect. Profitably cultured, including gardens, osieries, }   willow plantations, orchards, meadows } 30,000,000 hect.   and cultivated pastures } Forests and landes 10,000,000 ” Useless land 7,000,000 ” ————— 47,000,000 ”