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So the expence would be, 34!. 35. pe 

 farm." 



Here I interrupted him, with faying that 

 I had no conception of thefe things being 

 done for fuch a fum of money. 



" Not in England," replied he, " but 

 they might be done here for le&; the pea- 

 fants themfetves, if they could be intruded 

 with the money, would do them all for 

 two-thirds of it. But let me, to pleafe 

 you, call the expence 35!. ; 3,000,000 of 

 livres, or 131,250!. would then eftablim 

 three thoufand feven hundred and fifty of 

 thefe farms, making one hundred and eighty 

 feven thoufand five hundred acres in all, 

 confequently in about eight years the whole 

 would be done ; but if it was twenty years 

 executing, it would be a work fufficient to 

 immortalize the undertaker." 



But, fuppofing the fums you have al- 

 lotted fufficient for the works you name 

 them for, yet what are the farmers to do 

 for food for themfelves, their families, and 

 cattle, and other wants which you do not 

 name ? 



" I fuppofe, that, as faft as the houfes 

 and inclofures are finiflied, proclamation 



fhould 



