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will be no inconfiderable faving to the aa- 

 tion. 



When the very great profits, arifing to 

 the planter from every acre of tobacco, 

 come to be known, (they will appear chi- 

 merical if I inform my readers to what they 

 amount) I doubt not but that tobacco will 

 be confidered as the moft valuable branch of 

 agriculture which can be attended to. An 

 emulation, heightened by the profped: of 

 gain, being once excited in the breafls of 

 the landholders of thefe kingdoms, large 

 tracks of land that now lie unimproved, will 

 be cultivated, and, after fome years, enough 

 may probably be raifed to anfwer the ufual 

 demands for exportation. 



By this means the revenue, which has 

 been fo greatly diminished by the unhappy 

 diviiions between Great-Britain and the co- 

 lonies, will be in a great meafure reftored. 

 The duties to be collected for this purpofe 

 may either be laid on the plants before they 

 are gathered, or during the time of cure, 



as 



