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ces of it are felt in Ireland ; but I am forry to fay, very ill 

 underftood ih England : that portion of national wealth which 

 is employed in the improvement of the lands of a ftate is the 

 beft employed for the general welfare of a country ; while 

 trade and manufactures, national funds, banking, &c. fwal- 

 Jow Up prodigious futtis in England, but yield a profit of not 

 #bove 5 to 10 per cent ; the lands of Ireland are unimproved, 

 upon which money would pay 15 to 20 per cent, exclufive of a 

 variety of advantages which muft ftrike the moft fuperficial 

 reader. Hence the vaft importance to England of the im- 

 provement of her Irifb. territory. It is an old oblervation, thtt 

 the wealth of Ireland will always center in England ; and the 

 fadl is true, though not in the way commonly alferted : No 

 employment of 100 millions, not upon the aftual foil of Bri- 

 tain, can ever pay her a tenth of the advantage which would 

 refult from Ireland being ia the above refpefts upon that 

 par which I have defcribed with England. The more at- 

 tentively this matter is confidered, I am apt to think the more 

 clearly this will appear ; and that whenever old illiberal jea- 

 loufies are worn out, which, thanks to the good fenfe of the 

 age, are daily difappearing, we fhall be fully convinced, that 

 the benefit of Ireland is fo intimately. connected with the good 

 cf England, that we fliall be as forward to give to that hither- 

 tojunhappy country, as ihe can be to receive, from the firm 

 conviction, that whatever we thus fow will yield to us a moft 

 abundant harveft. 



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H E produces per acre were, in every place, an objet of 

 my enquiries. The following table will at one view AV-W 



JL my enquiries. * nc ivuuwmg .auit w 

 \vhat they are in moft parts of the kingdom. 



