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tain might^eafily be increafed to the value of 

 I ooo millions annually. 



This affertion has been thought altogether 

 incredible, and beyond bounds extravagant. 

 Nevertheless, when I have afked, Kow much 

 the proportion of the ground in Britain really 

 improved bore to that which was capable of 

 improvement ? it has been as conftantly ac- 

 knowledged, that the proportion of the for- 

 mer was not one to i oo of the latter. This, 

 however, is granting me ten times more than 

 I alk ; but, at the fame time, it ihews, how 

 much people are convinced in their own 

 minds of the truth of what is already publifh- 

 cd to the world in the Eflays on National 

 Improvements. 



Nor can it in the leaft be doubted, that 

 whoever confiders the means pointed out in 

 thofe effays, will find them fully adequate to 

 the end propofed. But it is too much the 

 Cafe with mankind, to overlook thofe things 

 which are eafy and within their reach, for 

 others more difficult, or perhaps impoffible 

 to be attained. 



According to the calculations we make of 

 ?"he Britifh produce in its prefent ftate, the 



value 



