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‘fects of necefsity and high premium in the creation 
_ of new corn lands and garden ground in the ‘vicinity 
of Aberdeen; and the fine crops all around Edin- 
burgh, on the Forth westward, where nothing but 
heath and muir, whin stones and broom, were to 
be found in the last century ; the improvements on 
‘Falkirk Muir, Flanders Mofs, and all around the 
neighbourhood of Glasgow and Paisley, sufficiently 
evince the great effect which towns, composed of in- 
dusttious settlers in manufacture, has upon the in- 
crease of agricultural produce. ' 
In fhort I consider agriculture and manufactures 
‘as man and wife, the former the hardy hufband in 
the field, and the latter the thrifty laborious Ne 
‘in the house. 
Whom God, therefore, or the constitution of nature, 
has joined, let no man attempt to put asunder ! 
Let every one of us, in our respective situati- 
‘ons promote as much as pofsible the full employ- 
ment of our capitals, of our fkill, and dexterity, in 2- 
: griculture and manufactures. And let commerce be as 
inland and domestic, or as foreign and external, as 
events fhall occasion, we fhall do best never to think 
-of balances of trade as sources of jealousy, or causes’ 
of disagreement und foolifh enactments ; but to be 
persuaded, that heme and neighbouring markets are 
the most profitable, by securing quick returns, and 
by preventing ridiculous, as well as abominable wars, 
undertaken by selfifh ministers for the extension of 
commercial monopolies. 
By universal industry the mafs of human enjoy- 
ments would be indefinitely augmented, and the non- 
