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much the increafe of cities and great towns 

 affecls farming ; but this evidently leaves the 

 country in a manner totally deftitute of gen- 

 tlemen: Hence the fervants wages, at leaft 

 in Scotland, is increafed double of what they 

 were thirty years pafl ; and the price of eve- 

 ry article the farmer has to purchafe is alfo 

 increafed ; the country is deprived of that 

 lhare of the circulation of cafh which it 

 ought to have ; and the evil is particularly 

 increafed by that intolerable rage for build- 

 ing, which has fo long prevailed. Thus the 

 cafh is made chiefly to circulate among peo- 

 ple ufelefs in a great meafure to agriculture; 

 for great quantities of money are fent into fo- 

 reign countries for wood and iron, which arc 

 eftimated by builders to be near two- thirds 

 of the expence of a houfe. Or if the land- 

 holder fhould not give into the common mad- 

 nefs of the times, by building a large houfe, 

 he will depofit his money in the hands of a 

 trader, manufa&urer, or any where, rather 

 than in thofe of a farmer ; and other perfons 

 of inferior rank never fail to manifeft the 

 iame difpofitions. 



Another caufe why farmers do not grow 

 rich, is owing to fome taking large farms 



too 



