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in the Highlands of confiderable extent, might be drain- 

 ed with very little expence, 318. 



Muirs in Lochaber, equal, if not fuperior in quality to a- 

 ny in Scotland, 253. Methods of improving them, 



N 



Nation, figns of the fpeedy deflruftion of one, 9. 

 National debt, a caufe of the fcarcity of money among far- 



mers, 75. 

 National fyftem of agriculture much wanted in Britain, 2. 



See Agriculture. 

 New Holland, the fettlement there of no ufe to Britain, 



25- 

 Norfolk, bad ceconomy of the farms there, with regard tc 



then* meadows, 68. Its produce on the decline, 82. 

 Nova Scotia, the fettlement there attended with vaft ex- 



pence and little advantage to Britain, 25. 



O 



Old grafs when broken up, produces excellent crops of 

 flax, 192. 



P 



Paper currency, the quantity of it increafes the price of 



provifions, 95. 



Peats, calculation of their expence and profit, 324. 

 Perfia, how watered artificially, 292. 

 Planting ought to be encouraged in Lochaber, 245. Trees, 



moft advantageous to be planted in this country, 259. 

 Pleafure grounds, extent of them increafes the price of 



provifions, 96. 

 Poors-rates : part of the fums raifed for this purpofe in 



England might be employed for creeling villages, &c. 



35- 

 Population, how it is incrcafed, 33. Vaft number of in- 



