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The draining, inclosing-, and properly cultivating the 

 fens and peat mosses in Britain, would, by rearing and 

 feeding a greater number of cattle of all descriptions^ 

 allow a greater proportion of the higher and drier lands 

 to be kept in tillage; whence would be produced a 

 greater quantity of grain and animal food. The present 

 inhabitants of Great Britain would be more reasonably 

 and plentifully fed and cloathed, and a considerable 

 surplus would be left either for exportation, or for the 

 maintenance of an augmented number of people. 



Population would increase as plenty is secured. The 

 additional produce of the earth would not only feed a 

 greater-number of inhabitants, but would provide them 

 ^with constant employment in the manufacturing of 

 wool, hides, hemp, and flax, the internal productions 

 of our own 1 Island, instead of relying upon a precarious 

 supply of some of these necessary articles from foreign 

 States; and lastly, emigration, the' constant attendant on scar- 

 would, no longer- rob- these kingdoms of their only defence. 



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