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to fuch a degree, the cultivation in many places, 

 that nothing can be made to grow. I afcribe to 

 this lafl. piece of mifmanagement the fterility of 

 the heaths in Brittany. In vain has the attempt 

 been made to reftore their ancient fertility : it 

 never can fucceed, till you begin with recalling 

 their Ihelter and their temperature, by re-fowing 

 the forefts. But there is a requifite prior even to 

 this ; you mud render the peafantry happy. The 

 profperity of a country depends, before, and above 

 all things, on that of it's inhabitants. 



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