72 EXTENT OF PERMANENT 



properly drained and trenched did not repay 

 double the interest here stated, while in many 

 cases we have known cent, per cent, realised. 



The position of British landlords and tenants 

 is such at present, that neither of them can 

 expect to be able to perform those duties which 

 they mutually owe to one another and the 

 public, unless from the proceeds of permanent 

 improvements of the kind just mentioned. 

 They may expect great things, as many do, 

 from geology and chemistry, without having 

 to put their hands into their own pockets, but 

 the expectation is vain and delusory. Those 

 are the very first improvements which these 

 sciences will recommend for the advancement 

 and prosperity of British agriculture. 



The sum of 10/. invested in every British 

 acre cultivated, or capable of cultivation, may 

 be stated in round numbers at about 600,000,0007. 

 The investment of such a sum in the soil is 

 obviously a scheme, to say the least of it, of no 

 ordinary magnitude, and may appear to many 

 unacquainted with capital to be uncalled for 

 nnd chimerical. What is true, however, in 

 respect of a part, must be admitted as true in 

 respect of the whole ; what is true of one acre 



