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fcarce and difficult to be procured, that one 

 is no fooncr vacant, than twenty appHcations 

 are immediately made for it. Now the great 

 profit that is made by agriculture, confifts 

 in the firft cultivation of wafte lands, and 

 fuch farmers as have fortunes fufficient for 

 improving can never turn their attention to 

 fuch beneficial purpofes as hiring wild un- 

 cultivated trads, where much land (whole 

 countries) are to be had for a trifling rent. 

 But as that rank of people are in general 

 much confined in their views, and timorous 

 in their attempts, wafle lands are very flowly 

 improved, by being left entirely to their 

 management ; for this reafon it is much 

 to be wifhcd, that the landlords in thefe 

 countries would undertake the great, but 

 profitable bufinefs of improvement, and 

 repay themfelves in the rent : It is every 

 w^here in this country perfedly well known, 

 that all farms let with the greateft readi- 

 nefs, and that no tract of moor-land can 

 be inclofed and divided into proper fields, 

 broke up, limed, and laid down well with 

 grafics, but tenants in plenty will be ready 

 to 111 re them ; and to give fuch rents as 

 will amply pay the Intercfl: of the firnis 

 expended, and leave a noble profit befidcs. 

 If a landlord has not the cafli in hand for 

 fuch v/orks, let him borrow it, and he will 

 fmd his profit not fliort of lo per cent. 



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