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By the foregoing flatement, there appears a pro- 

 duce, worth upwards of 125,000!. loft annually in 

 the fmall county of Berks only ! But let the reflec- 

 tion be carried ftill farther, by confidering, that 

 bread and beer corn, fufficient for nearly 30,000 peo- 

 ple, might be thus created; and alfo an increafe of 

 work, that would give full employment to every, 

 individual that is now taxing the landed intereft for 

 fupport.* 



Combining, therefore, the advantages that may 

 be effected from the cultivation of the wafte land, 

 with thofe I have already recommended, it is not 

 hyperbolical to aflert, that Berkfliire has immediate 

 refources in itfelf fufficient to fupport and employ 

 an increafe of nearly one fourth of its prefent po- 

 pulation. 



Survey of Carmarthenshire, page 21. 



BY MR. CHARLES HASSALL. 



Wastes; upon the calculation already made of 

 the inclofed lands in the diftri^t, it remains for ob- 

 fervation, that one-third of it is uninclofed and wafte. 



• A proportionate quantity of the wafte land might be applied to 

 the growth of thofe moft important articles, hemp and flax ; and in- 

 dependant of the advantages the ftate muft derive from the extenfion 

 of lb valuable a produdlion, the demand for hands to manufacflure it 

 •n time of war would be great, and divert, in fome meafure, that flag 

 nation of employment amongft manufacflurers that we always expe- 

 rience during hoAilitici. 



