1^6 A TREATISE ON THE COI^NECTION OF 



The draining, inclosing, and properly cultivating tlic- 

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

 feeding a greater nvuiiber 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 ^yould 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 manufa(fturing of 

 wool,^ hides, hemp, and flax, the internal i)rodu(fl:ions 

 of our own 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^ 

 city, 'would, no lo/iger rob these kingdoms of their only defence. 



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