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enable you to do it : yours is not a wool 

 country ; the soil will not support sheep in 

 anynumber. From the produce, the English 

 soil first made the trade ; and now trade is 

 repaying the sod. Within my own know- 

 ledge, it was a customary thing with my 

 father, as a Lincolnshire grazier, to sell his 

 wool (from about one thousand sheep) to a 

 wool-stapler in Yorkshire in the month of 

 July, and to take a note for the money to 

 the amount of three hundred and fifty 

 pounds sterling, payable by a bill to be- 

 come due the April following. When this 

 bill came down from Halifax to him, he 

 regularly gave it to a shopkeeper to pay his 

 tradesmen in London or elsewhere ; and 

 my father received the money from that 

 shopkeeper, when the bill became due. 

 Now it may be worthy observation, that 

 there were nine months' use of three hundred 

 and fifty pounds without interest : this 

 wool was raised on about six hundred acres 

 of land ; and this being a customary way of 

 doing business at that time, if three hundred 



