220 A TREATISE ON THE CONNECTION OF 



Taxes : an employment which, as it is the frst he has 

 ever filled, so it is the last he would have thought of 

 filling under Government. 



The plans of taxation, and fafts upon which those plans 

 founded, come now to he stated. 



There are reckoned to be in Britain millions 



of acres under annual culture by the plough ; and sup- 

 posing each horse to cultivate acres annually, the 

 number of horses requisite for tillage will amount to 

 To keep up this stock, it would require an annual 

 supply of at least a sixteenth part; and as horses are 

 not put to work in general until three years old, three 

 sixteenths fall to be added to the number of horses 

 kept for tillage; at which rate the number would 

 amount to : to which are to added the horses 



belonging to the cavalry, those employed in carts, wains, 

 waggons, collieries, mines, machinery, manufactories, 

 and other works ; and also horses for posting, carriages, 

 the saddle, hunting, and the turf, Sec. &c. These are 

 reckoned to amount at least to one third of what is kept 

 for tillage, so that the whole number of horses kept in 



Britain 



