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vineyards around him, finds employment for 

 his wife and family ; fo that this fyftem is, of 

 all others, formed for increafing population. 

 On the contrary, corn and grafs, which re- 

 quire a far greater fum to begin with, and 

 confequently not one in an hundred can ever 

 hope to get into fuch abulinefs; and, where 

 men cannot arrive at the means to fupport 

 themfelves and families, we may be fure 

 they will neither of them have existence. 

 Nor does an acre of corn require one 

 tenth part of the labour which an acre of 

 vines does; and as the number of people 

 muft always be in proportion to their em- 

 ployment, there thence arjfes an abfolute 

 impoffibility of a country producing com 

 being fo populous as one that produces wine. 

 It is in thi.^refpecT: the fame with manufac- 

 tures. What is the reafon that the increa- 

 fing fabrics in a manufacturing town have 

 always the effecT: of greatly increafing the 

 number of inhabitants ? Is it not the in- 

 creafe of employment which caufes this ef- 

 feft ? Juft fo among vineyards, which ope- 

 rate in the fame manner. 



But then arifes the material queftion, Is 



it beneficial to the ftate to have a part of 



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