lions would decreafe, and population increafe. 

 Indeed, the number cannot be too many, if 

 upon a proper plan. 



It would be for the intereft of many gen- 

 tlemen, that half or the whole of their eftates 

 were fewed out, or let upon long leafes, ac- 

 cording to Lord Gardenftone's plan, for one 

 hundred years, and renewed at the expira- 

 tion of that term, upon paying two years 

 rent. 



It is amazing what effe6l this would have 

 upon mens minds ; how much their induftry 

 would be quickened when they reflected that 

 all their improvements would continue with 

 their families for ages. 



There is no fcheme that ever was yet in- 

 vented, which will tend to reduce the price 

 of provifions fo rapidly, as giving a fmall 

 portion to every perfon, nearly in equal pro- 

 portion to their flock. 



This is demonftrated from the practice of 

 the Romans. When their commonwealth 

 was firft eredled, they enafted a law that no 

 perfon mould have above one acre. Some- 

 time afterwards, that every one mould have 

 two acres ; a number of years after, four 



