FRANCE. 



formation refpe&ing our agriculture, infifts 

 on it, that an inclofed acre there yields four 

 times the produce of an acre of the fame 

 goodnefs in the fmall culture in France; 

 and, from all the accounts I have had, I 

 am inclined to believe the calculation a juft 

 one. Here, therefore, is a comparifon 

 which multiplies the territory of the fmaller 

 kingdom. A fmall county in England 

 yields as much produce as a great province 

 in France, and confequently is as powerful, 

 fince the country will certainly be able to 

 pay as much in taxes as the province. There 

 is much truth in this in large ; fince the 

 taxes in England yield ten millions nett in- 

 come, from thirty millions of acres ; and, 

 if we call Scotland five millions of acres, 

 proportioned to its (hare of taxes, the total 

 foil is thirty-five millions ; whereas France 

 does not yield more than twelve millions 

 from above an hundred millions of acres ; 

 whereas, to be as rich as England, it ought 

 to yield juft thirty millions fterling per ann. 

 This proves the importance of encouraging 

 agriculture and induftry, and mews, that 

 it is not the extent of territory that weighs 



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