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for themfdves, and live very much upon 

 a footing of equality. 



This feems a prefumptive proof, that 

 agriculture, when it is thrown into a 

 number of hands, becomes the life of 

 induftry, the fource of plenty, and the 

 fountain of riches to a country ; but 

 that monopolized, and grafped into few 

 hands, it mufl difliearten the bulk of 

 mankind, who are reduced to labour 

 for others inflead of themfelvesj muffc 

 lefTen the produce, and greatly tend to 

 general poverty, 



I fhall not attempt wholly to account 

 for the amazing increafed price of provi- 

 iions with us. There are, undoubtedly, 

 many caufes which contribute to it; but 

 it is very evident that no fingle caufc 

 affeds it, fo much as the deflrudlivc 

 pradice which has prevailed, for near 

 half a century backj of demolishing 



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