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the general benefit of every county is immediately 

 confulted by the only means in which the common 

 farmers can gain the chance at an eafy charge, and 

 fpeedy rate, to have the beft breeds gradually con- 

 veyed within their reach; and the kingdom thus 

 flocked with what is mofl profitable under its pre- 

 fent circumftances. 



To a confiderable increafe of population, we mud 

 certainly attribute the alarming report of a late 

 committee, that this kingdom does not at prefent, 

 grow more corn than is neceflary for its own con- 

 fumption. It is therefore in policy a criminal dif- 

 grace to permit the waftes to remain uninclofed, 

 even where they are a tolerable flieep-walks when 

 by an apportionment of wafle to individuals, under 

 the prefent rotation of crops on arable land, flocks, 

 upon the whole of fuperior value, might be kept 

 up in not inferior numbers -, and with due . encou- 

 ragement, not lefs delicate in the wool. At the 

 fame time, they would contribute by the fold to 

 raife corn for the fupport of that multitude to which 

 the manufacturing of their fleece affords employ- 

 ment, and in confequence has added to the increafe. 



From the North of Scotland, where the climate 

 renders grazing the only proper agriculture, we 



may 



