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Art. XVI. 

 Brief Remarks on PraBical Improvements. 



[By J. F. efq.] 

 DEAR SIR, 



HAVE read above thirty of the Surveys lately 

 made for the Board of Agriculture, many of 

 which are well written, and contain much valuable 

 information ; they all agree that a commutation for 

 tithes, a general inclofmg bill, and the granting of 

 leafes, are effential to any great improvement in the 

 cultivation of lands in this Ifland, as mentioned m 

 my former letter to you. 



If all this had been done one hundred years ago, 

 inllead of fending our men and money to America, 

 it is probable our national debt would have been one 

 hundred millions lefs than it is, and our land at home 

 worth one hundred millions more than it is, and ca- 

 pable of fupporting at leafl: a million more people. 

 Dean Tucker's advice, to " colonize at home," 

 was certainly right ; and I hope that dear-bought 

 experience will at length teach our governors to 

 follow it. 



I find that a threfliing-mill (to be worked by water 

 or horfes) is in high repute in Scotland, and the 

 Northern counties of England. Pray inform me if 

 you are acquainted with its utility, and if any one is 



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