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but injure their own intereft alfo ; for very 

 few receive more than two and a half per 

 cent, for their money; and it is thought ex*. 

 traordinary if they receive five. But by fol- 

 lowing the method of improvement here re- 

 commended, they might foon receive ten 

 per cent. And the farmers would likewife 

 find it for their intereft to have no more land 

 than their flock would allow them to im- 

 prove. 



Along with what is here recommended, 

 the mode of giving premiums, as mentioned 

 in the Treatife, or fome other, to promote a 

 more general attention to agriculture, would 

 feem to be an objeft highly worthy of the 

 notice of the Britifh legiflature. It is certain 

 indeed, that without a hearty concurrence of 

 every elate of people, all encouragement that 

 could be given by government, or by the 

 proprietors of land, would be entirely vain. 



The plan laid down in this treatife is uni- 

 verfal. It is defigned riot only to promote 

 the intereft of thofe who are already in eafy 

 circumftances, but to increale the happinefs 

 and comfort of every individual, whatever 

 their iituation may be. 



The natural defire which every perfon has 



