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and meet with any encouragement. This 

 has been the cafe in the provinces through 

 which I have travelled, and accordingly 

 they have made ample ufe of it. It is not 

 that Granada, Caftiles, Andalufia, Leon, 

 and the reft, can be equally improved. Na- 

 ture denies it ; the foil and face of the 

 country are different ; but I am clear the 

 people of thofe provinces would, as far as 

 water can be carried, render them equally 

 fine, if they were fet about it by examples 

 and encouragement. Thefe are in the 

 power of the Crown ; and if a wife Admi- 

 niftration was to arife, which fteadily gave 

 encouragement to agriculture upon judi- 

 cious principles, I am clear they would, 

 in fifty years, make the kingdoms produce 

 quadruple what it does at prefent, aud more 

 than double its inhabitants. 



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