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" life. And the labourer works lefs, and 

 " lives more intemperately." 



A further proof, that agriculture is declin- 

 ing is, that fome years ago Britain exported 

 corns to the amount of fix or 700,000 /. an- 

 nually ; while now we are obliged to import 

 grain to the amount of three or 400,000 /. and 

 fome years a million and a half, which makes 

 a difference of more than a million a year to 

 the nation ; fome years two. 



Let any perfon in the lead degree ac- 

 quainted with the prefent ftate of Britain with 

 refpect to agriculture, only confider what he 

 himfelf knows to be the cafe; viz. the great 

 difference betwixt the improvements in fome 

 parts of the country, and others of a fimilar 

 foil; both having the fame means of improve- 

 ment by lime, marie, dung, &c. and, in ma- 

 ny places, fields lying contiguous to one ano- 

 ther ; the one producing large crops of corn 

 and grafs, the other fuch fcanty crops of 

 corns, that they will not pay for feed and la- 

 bour ; the one farmer growing rich, the other 

 very poor ; the very fmall proportion that the 

 improved part of the country bears to that 

 which is not improved; the very large traces 

 of wafte land in every part of the country ca- 

 pable 



