Now if a little farmer, with all poffible 

 induftry, finds it a matter of vaft difficulty 

 to make any thing by his bufinefs (inde- 

 pendent I mean of his labour), how much 

 more difficulty will a gentleman find it, if 

 he farms with no fuperior advantages ? 



Here, I muft own, I feel a croud of 

 ideas, all unfufceptible of calculation, and 

 which will, on that account, puzzle me 

 extremely in the enfuing chapters. 



A farmer's labour is in part reducible to 

 eftimate, and in part not. He goes out to 

 plough, in a little farm that keeps a pair 

 of horfes, ftirs his acre of land, and comes 

 home : this labour we may value pretty 

 tolerably, becaufe the time is much the 

 fame as that of a labourer. But he is mafter 

 of four horfes and 2 ploughs ; confequently 

 a man works with him : here, at once* 

 the affair is changed ; and his labour is in 

 part unfufceptible of eftimate. He not only 

 ploughs his own acre, but fees that his man 

 ,does the fame; and if the horfes of the 

 latter move quicker than his own, fo that 

 his acre (we will fuppofe) is done the fooneft, 

 the farmer fees and remedies it ; he finds, 

 at once, that his man has fkimmed the fur- 

 face, 



