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In England, ort the contrary, there are 

 Numerous soldiers, sailors, manufacturers, 

 religious orders of men, &c. together with 

 the government, and all attendants of the 

 many ladies and gentlemen who keep 

 servants that do nothing towards raising 

 the necessaries of life, and are very luxu- 

 rious consumers: it is wonderful that so 

 small a proportion of men employed in 

 agriculture can so nearly provide for all 

 those and themselves. This is in a great 

 measure to be attributed to the fertility of 

 the soil, the mildness of the climate, and the 

 regularity of the government, not parti- 

 cularly to the industry or ingenuity of the 

 farmer : for I have seen fields of Indian 

 corn in America exceed any farming I ever 

 saw in England, though industry were equal. 

 The reader must be informed, in order 

 to account for this superiority on the part of 

 the Americans, that they are at work with 

 both the hoe and plough all the summer. 

 The field of one hundred acres, belong- 

 ing to Mr. Lloyd, which I have before 



