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nation a great fervice, to convince him he iy 

 wrong. 



The author does not mean, from what is 

 faid in all this reafoning, in the finalleft de- 

 gree to difcourage trade and manufactures ; 

 011 the contrary, he wifhes them all manner 

 of fuccefs, and rejoices to fee them increafc. 

 He only attempts to fhew, that agriculture! 

 is the primary intereft of Britain, and the 

 more that it is encouraged, the more our 

 trade and manufactures increafe, and may be 

 the means of bringing in a great and perma- 

 nent revenue to Britain. What he has en- 

 deavoured to prove is, that encouragement 

 Ihould be given to agriculture in preference 

 to trade and manufactures ; or, at leaft, the 

 encouragement ought to be equal. Indeed, 

 they are fo nearly connected, that they ought 

 never to be viewed feparately ; for, as the 

 one increafes fo does the other. Agriculture 

 is the foundation on which trade ^nd manu- 

 factures ought to build ; and to how great 

 height it might be raifed upon fuch a folid 

 foundation, it is hard to determine. Agri- 

 culture may be compared to the water-wheel* 

 which fets all the other wheels in motion. 



It is a great miflakc In many people to i- 



snagine, 



