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habitants in China, 46. Arts and manufactures unfa- 

 vourable to it, 49. LelTened by great cities, 50. 



Premiums propofed for the encouragement of agriculture, 

 144. A fum for the purpofe might be raifed by a finall 

 taxation on farmers, 152. Different clafics of prizes 

 propofed, 153. Premiums propofed for the improve- 

 ment of gardens, 344. 



Produce of Britain, how it might be increafed to ten times 

 its prefent amount in 40 years, 12. 



Provifions, their increafed price an evidence of a diminu- 

 tion in the produce of the Britifli foil, 70. Why far- 

 mers are not enriched in proportion to their increafed 

 price, 73. Caufes of the increaiing price of provifions 

 explained, 87. 



Public diverfions are attended with bad confequences by 

 reafon of the expence of time, &c. 104. 



R 

 Reft of one year in feven kept by the Jews, and rewarded 



by prodigious plenty in the other fix, 3. 

 Reviewers, their mean illiberal behaviour, 152, 331. 

 Ridges in Ayrmire, too high raifed, 183. 

 Riga lintfeed preferable to. the Dutch, and ufed by the 



Dutch themfelves, 217. 

 Rivers, of encloling them properly with banks, 229, fcf 



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Romans, to what their great power was owing, 37. Their 

 laws refpefting the extent of ground to be poflefTed by 

 citizens, 122. 



Rome, incredible number of its inhabitants, 1 8. Owing 

 to their addicting themfelves to agriculture, 35. 



Rot in fheep, produced by four grafs, 2.<56. 



Rotation of crops, want of a regular one a caufe of the 

 dearnefs of provifions, 97. Immenfe quantities of corn 

 wight be exported by attending to this, 136 



