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Palatine families were to be looked out, and 

 put in pofTeffion of them : the reft were to 

 be day-labourers. Each farmer was to be 

 intrufted with a capital of two hundred pounds ; 

 to be exempted from taxes for twenty years , 

 and to have an aflignment of foreft-timber, for 

 building, and repairs. 



This fcheme, which feems to have been 

 well-digefted, is faid to have been firft hinted 

 by the famous Daniel de Foe : but got no 

 farther than the treafurer's board — whether 

 the foil was thought incapable of being impro- 

 ved ; or whether it mifcarried from beine the 



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produdiion of fo wild a genius, which made 

 it fufped:ed as chimerical. 



We had now arrived at the fummit of the 

 vifta, which in profpe(ft had appeared fo 

 formal. On a clofe approach, it's formality 

 wore off; and we found ourfelves furrounded 

 by beautiful fcenery. The fummit itfelf is a 

 fine wooded-knoll, riling, on the left, and 



falling, on the right, into open groves. 



As we defcended the hill, on the other fide, 

 the clofe-wooded fcenery ftill continued beau- 

 tiful, 



