- gi Ot * "-ayo kJvov r 



balance every other *, and in which the 



farmer has all the chances on his fide. 

 And thefe confiderations are fo very impor- 

 tant, that they fhould influence us to in*, 

 creafe the difference, were I not fearful of 

 lanching too far into ideal eftimates. Nor 

 have I taken into the account the difference 

 the farrier makes .in it, nor fome other 

 articles that would, if reduced to fo much 

 per cent, run it up much higher, 



I fhould obferve, that the proportion be- 

 tween the farmer a,nd the gentleman is the 

 great thing in this calculation; for that 

 holds equally good whether horfes coft /, 

 a year or io/.; or whether the expence 

 of a fervant be 2O /. or 30 /. In this refpecl: 

 the above fuppofed 100 /. is a mere imagi-r 

 nary fum; an algebraic fign, identically 

 nothing hut the means of drawing forth, 

 the proportion, In feveral parts of the 

 kingdom with which I am acquainted, it 

 ;s pretty near the truth ; it was therefore 



* We do not, however, think with thex)Id proverb of 

 the Roman farmers , <vetus eft agricolarum pro-~verbium na- 

 ixram fationem Jape dtctpert fokre, feram. nunquam. $u:n 

 mulajt, but the very contrary, 



