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35ol. for it, which is but 20I. fliort of my demand. 

 This bit of pailure hath been in my poffcffion forty- 

 nine years, in all which time, I have not expended 

 about it 20I. in agricultural improvements. 



I remember when land was let at fifteen (hillings 

 per acre, to have fold beef and pork at three ihillings 

 per fcore, mutton at two-pence per pound, cheefe at 

 fixteen (hillings per hundred, bacon and butter at 

 three pence per pound, wheat at three fliillings per 

 budiel, barton-fowls and ducks at eight-pence per 

 couple, and fat geefe at two-pence farthing per pound. 

 Now, fuppofmg thefe feveral articles fell at prefent 

 at three times that price, why cannot a farmer afford 

 to give three times the rent for his farm, viz. forty- 

 five fliillings per acre, upon an average ? and if fo, 

 how far fliort that is of three pound ten (hillings per 

 acre for the beft land, I leave to the judgment of 

 the occupier, who very well knows the expence of 

 preparing his commodities for the market is not 

 materially increafed, if performed as it ought to be 

 by his own family. 



It is certain that farmers in this neighbourhood 

 have added to their confequence very much within 

 fifty years. I can fend you the names of fifty of 

 them, worth ten thoufand pounds each upon an 

 average, amounting together to half a million (ler- 

 ling, of their own or their father's getting within that 

 period. This influx of wealth provides us with a 

 ihop, a butcher, a baker, a barber, a furgeon, an at- 

 torney. 



