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when he introduces an alien stock, by way of improvement, is, not 

 to change from rich land to poor, or from a ivarm to a cold climate. 



7th. Encourage the use of oxen. 



It is universally acknowledged, that too great a portion of land 

 is employed in raising food for horses ; and it is also to be known, 

 that a draught horse, if well fed and kept in house thirty weeks of 

 the year, will consume twelve quarters of corn, and thirty cwt. 

 of hay, beside grass; this may be considered as the produce of five 

 acres of good land, which under common cultivation would main- 

 tain three men. If therefore the riches of a country consist in the 

 extent of its population, and that population, can only be advanced 

 by increasing the means of subsistence, it follows, that every man 

 who keeps an unnecessary horse is an enemy to his country, by re- 

 tarding the increase of his own species. 



Navigable canals would also greatly tend to reduce the number 

 of horses, and wherever the situation is such as to admit of them, 

 should be encouraged. 



To a spirit of speculation and gambling, the country is indebted 

 for the canals now cutting, and others in contemplation ; but though 

 the rage has subsided, yet I trust the probable advantages will in- 

 spire the present adventurers, with sufficient spirit and vigor to pro- 

 secute their undertaking, to its full completion. 



The county is rich, populous, and abounds with all those 

 heavy articles of traffic, which will render water conveyance pro- 

 fitable to the subscribers, and beneficial to the public ; and if the 

 cuts be made of small dimensions, the cost will be trifling ; the 

 consumption of land, and the invasion of private property insigni- 

 ficant : such a canal, could only be considered as a large ditch, 

 and might be so multiplied, as to answer the purpose of turnpike 

 roads. 



8th, 



