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value of the improvements will be more or 

 more or lefs. If we fuppofe it only 100 

 millions annually, the value muft be tooo 

 millions, when thus encreafed; or, if 

 fuppofe it 200 millions at prefent, it is e ify to 



fee, that 2000 millions a-year muft foou arife 



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from the methods of improvement propofed. 



The immenfity of the fum is no argument 

 againft the poflibility of railing it. For when 

 we endeavour to augment the produce of the 

 earth, it is no wonder that we fhould be 

 aftonifhed at the bounty with which our la- 

 bour is rewarded by the Author of nature. 



Suppofing then, the produce of Britain at 

 prefent to be only one hundred millions, and 

 the confequent improvements to be a thou- 

 fand; is not this an objedl of great national 

 concern, now when providence has favoured 

 us with peace ? And ought we not then to 

 exert ourfelves, every one in his ftation, to 

 promote this great end ? which, if once ac- 

 complifhed, would not only exceed all the 

 profits arifing from trade, manufactures, and 

 fifheries, as well as all the improvements that 

 could be reafonably fuppofed to be made 111 

 them j but, inftead of hurting thefe favourite 



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