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and fifty pounds were lent from every six 

 hundred acres of grazing land in the county 

 of Lincoln only, what an immense sum the 

 whole of the grazing land lent to the trade in 

 those days ! All this was independent of the 

 fat cattle, horses, &c. raised on this grazing 

 land : and I have known my father have 

 the like sum in the jobbers' hands in the 

 month of November for the fat sheep, and 

 cattle, he had sold to go into Yorkshire 

 during the summer. This money was of 

 great assistance to the trade ; but there 

 are none of these sort of advantages in 

 America to give the like assistance to raise 

 the manufactures ; nor can there be ; the 

 soil is of too barren a nature ; and the cli- 

 mate is against the health of the people, 

 and the fattening of both sheep and cattle. 

 These sheep were fed in England on the 

 marsh soils during the winter, on grass; 

 xvithout any further expence, than one 

 man to look after five thousand of them : 

 nor would it have been any advan- 

 tage to the graziers to have had the 



