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the ufeful arts will figuratively, and in effeét, be 
only /owing men, and propagating the human fpecies; 
and while (notwithftanding we have fo long been 
fruitlefsly colonizing in diftant countries) we have 
within our own domeflick bounds, perhaps many 
more than ten millions of aeres yet unploughed, 
and that, by proper encouragement, thofe already 
under aration may be rendered abundantly more 
productive; we have furely much yet to do in the 
Jowing way, and (luxury and moral corruption apart) 
but little to apprehend from a diminution of trade. 
However, without recurring to an enlarged popu- 
Jation, as a call for improvement in the arts, it muft 
at this day afford ferious matter for regret, that in 
our agricultural departments, after thefe twenty or 
thirty years’ regular and progreflive improvements in 
our cattle and fheep, during which, fo ardent have 
been our purfuits after excellence in their refpetive 
breeds, that it has ceafed to be matter of wonder 
for our horned cattle to have been purchafed at 
2, 3, Or 400 guineas a-head; and that for the ufe, 
for a fingle feafon, of one, two, or three rams, 
fhould be given to an individual proprietor 400 
guineas a-piece; that after the well-direéted atten- 
tion of our modern cincinnati, and the truly Iau- 
dable and fuccefsful efforts of many of our firft 
nobility, in attaining and promulgating the art of 
diverting the nutriment of the food, taken in by our 
— 
* Alluding to America. quadrupeds, 
