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From hence we find, that at the end of the year 1777, 

 there would have been 42,433 acres improved in the complete 

 and mafterly manner ten pounds an acre effects, the annual 

 produce of which would be at four pounds an acre, 169,732!.. 

 all abfolute and undoubted profit to the kingdom : there 

 would have been received in this manner no lefs than, 

 845,000!. If the lands were thrown as they ought to be 

 into the courfe of i. turneps ; 2. barley; 3. clover; 

 4. wheat ; and reckoning the barley at ten barrels, and the 

 wheat at fix, there would now be a produce every year of 

 63,649 barrels of wheat, and 186,082 of barley; and this 

 from only half the land ; the other half in turneps an<! clover 

 would undoubtedly keep ten fheep the year through, and 

 yield fifty pounds of wool, or in the whole 106,080 fheep and 

 33,150 llones of wool, with^all the employment and popula- 

 tion which would refult from fuch excellent tillage, building, 

 fencing, manuring, and fpinning. Kow different this effect 

 from having in the laft feven years loft above a million iler- 

 ling by the inland carriage ; in that period the bounty has 

 juft trebled ; if it goes on fo it will be one hundred and eigh- 

 ty thoufand pounds a year in feven years more, and by that 

 time there will be neither flicep nor cows left in the king- 

 dom ; but fuppofe it to (land at fixty thoufand pounds a 

 year, that fum in feven years, applied in a bounty on culti- 

 vating wattes^ would improve forty-two ihouiand acres, and 



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