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would now go on rapidly, beyond our moft fah- 

 guine cxpedations, and inftead of encouraging thc_ 

 fuinous pradlice of gambling, by giving King's 

 plates under a pretence of improving the breed of 

 horfes, let the government give a certain fum (in 

 proportion to the amount of the land-tax in each 

 County) upon condition that double Or treble that 

 fum be raifed by the inhabitants, and applied to 

 improve agriculture, and other objcdts of pub- 

 lick utility there> and it would then ftimulate 

 the gentlemen to meet and exert themfelves, as it 

 would be a difgrace to lofe the publick bounty, 

 througli their own indolence and want of patriotifm. 

 The national advantages of inclofures, inftead of 

 wilds and race-grounds, would then foon be better 

 attended to and linderftood. There would always 

 be too much land lininclofed on the tops of hills, 

 and fheep will always be too profitable to be neg- 

 ledledj if it were poflible to inclofe the more level 

 parts of the whole ifland; fo that the objedion to 

 inclofing on account of iheep-walks, and alfo on 

 account of the poor, (who are much more wretched 

 for want of work near commons, than where all the 

 land is inclofcd,) is futile and ill-founded, for want 

 of a more general and perfe^ft knowledge of fadls. 



The arable farmer is a very ufcful member of fo- 



ciety ; he employs twenty times as many people as 



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