THE RURAL SOCRATES. 4? 



for the ufe of the table. His orchard likewifc fupplies 

 him vvith fruit, his cows with milk and butter, his hogs 

 with bacon. — An accurate examiner of this ^flimate will 

 obferve, on the other fidcj the apparent hazard t© 

 hufbandman of unavoidable ruin, by engaging in the 

 improvement of an eftate fo badly circumftanced, had 

 he not been endowed with intelligence and a<5livlty.~ 

 Thefe waflc and uncultivated fields would fcarcely have 

 afforded, in the mod plentiful years, to an idle unfkilfui 

 farmer, the moiety of Kliyogg^s harvefl ; whilfl more 

 money would have been expended for the payment of 

 laborers, than, according to the above calculation, he 

 received in profit. 



The furplus profits of the year are always employed 

 by Kliyogg in Imprcrvements, or in the purchafe of land. 

 This he regards as more advantageous ) than liquidating^ 

 the mortgage upon his eftate.; fince he makes much 

 more intereft by employing 4I. 7s. 6d. in agriculture^ 

 than the four per cent, he pays ;* and he confiders the 

 reciprocal convenience it is to a rich citizen to have 

 his money on' landed fecurity* The only trouble it 

 gives him, is the making his annual payments.— Senfible 

 that the time approaches, when the health, firength, and 

 vigor of his children will lend ailiflance to his labor, all 

 his plans tend towards aggrandizing his eflate ; that his 

 polierity may, by his example, be animated to procure, 



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* This tnaxlai of condu^, which is fo very unufnal in economical 

 liarnds, fhews the ftrength of Kliyogg's ideas. — It is the misfortone o? 

 thofe who fee an objedt but in one ligiir, who regard the paying of mort- 

 gages as the fixft aioi ; to apply their money to an intereft cf four or live 

 per cent, when they might eafily coainiand ten or twelve. The one, it is 

 true, is an uncertain, the other a certain iDcome ; but how cotne fpiriterl 

 improvers, manufa<5tursrs, merchant?, &c. to trade on borrowed roonty f 

 Not becaufe fuch a condud^is totally Iree from objeftions, but hecaufe tho 

 advantages more than balance fuch obje^ions. That rnind which beholds 

 nothing but difficulties and obje^ions ii isean and goi;tra^ed ; it i* a« 

 liabit that mark* a Wvh foul, Y, 



