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that an incredible number of inhabitants were 

 fupported within the narrow boundaries of 

 their kingdom, befides the exportation of 

 great quantities of wheat, &c. Now, as the 

 divine wifdom thought proper to impofe a 

 certain and uniform method of agriculture 

 on that nation, and the good effe&s of their 

 adherence to it were manifefled by the im- 

 menfe crops produced, it certainly cannot be 

 thought an injudicious propofal, that an uni- 

 form fyftem of agriculture fhould likewife be 

 inftituted throughout Britain. Nay, I will 

 venture to affirm, that it is owing to the 

 want of this uniformity that the produce is 

 fo finall; and that, inftead of hurting the 

 landlord, the farmer, or the nation in gene- 

 ral, an uniformity in the plan of agriculture 

 would be highly advantageous to them all. 



Let us fuppofe, that one half of every farm 

 were laid out in grafs. All foils would be 

 the better for having a part in pafture, flrong 

 clay not excepted : For long experience has 

 now difcovered, that even in the moft im- 

 proved counties in Britain, the foil is ex- 

 haufted when continued long with corns, e- 

 ven with clover and turnip ; and, of courfe, 

 the corn crops muft every year be upon the 



decline. 



