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inagine, that trade and manufactures might 

 be fuccefsfully carried on, though agriculture 

 ihould be neglected, and Britain remain iii 

 its prefent unimproved ftate. 



Surely, commerce and manufactures can- 

 not be carried on fo advantageoufly, as they 

 .might, if the country was better improved. 

 England is fuppofed to produce .above ten 

 times the quantity of corns that Scotland 

 does; and, of confequence, manufactures are 

 there carried on to a much greater extent. 



Arguments, however, are unnecefTary in 

 the prefent cafe; for it is obvious to every 

 one, that were agriculture brought to that 

 height of improvement for which we contend,' 

 trade muft be greatly increafed, even by the 

 exportation of its furplus ; and population 

 would be greatly increafed by the reduction 

 of the price of provisions. 



The author may here be allowed to exprefs' 

 his fatisfadtion, that the efifays, intitled " Na- 

 tional Improvements," fo often referred to in 

 the preceding pages, have met with general 

 approbation. In thefe he endeavoured to 

 prove, what is before faid, that by following 

 the directions he has laid down, the produce 

 of Britain would be increafed to tea times 



what 



