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now ftaiids, the burthen may be immoderate, and 

 therefore to every perfon acquainted with the value 

 of money, (which the farmers now are more than 

 formerly, and know how to make calculations) it 

 cannot be expeded that they will lay out any con- 

 fiderable fum, when the firfl: eleven per cent, profit 

 goes to the impropriator, before they can receive 

 any advantage themfelves: and, in cafe of a lofs, that 

 lofs is augmented by the impropriator's taking a 

 tenth part of the capital laid out, as far as it was re- 

 turned to the occupiers. 



Survey of Wiltshire, p. 163. 



It may, perhaps, be expefted by fome, that in 

 fpeakitjg of obflacles to improvements in agriculture, 

 the payment of tithes in kind fliould be mentioned, 

 and fome plan propofed for its abolition. But it is 

 not to be expelled, that fo great an alteration in 

 the policy of the kingdom, involving fo many valu- 

 able interefls and important confequences, can be ef- 

 fefted from the crude and undigefted fchemes of an 

 humble individual. The Board of Agriculture may, 

 perhaps, hereafter be able, from the combined in- 

 formation that will be collefted by them, to deter- 

 mine whether any thing can be done in this impor- 

 tant bufmefs, and what meafures are the mod likely 

 to give general fatisfaftion to the parties interefled. 



But, 



