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acre ; 640 acres, at that rent, amounts to 

 400/. a year. This income from 2670/. 

 is at the rate of 14/. ic)s.per cent. The 

 clear profit will be as follows : 



Rent of the farm, - - >C- 4°^ 



Intereft at 4/'t'r re';?/. - - 108 



Clear profit, /'£'r ^;z;zz/;;/, - - 292 



* 



If this calculation, founded on the very 

 beft authority, and exaggerated in not q\\^ 

 particular, does not prove the immenie pro- 

 fit of improving moors, nothing can ; nor 

 is there an indifputahle truth in all nature. 

 How loudly does it call upon their pro- 

 prietors to awake from the flrange lethargy 

 in which they have been dreaming for fo 

 many ages ! The cultivation of a large trad: 

 of this land is an objedt of great importance 

 to the largeft fortunes ; for the improvement 

 amounts to near loj. an acre annual income; 

 and the nobility and gentry in the north do 

 not reckon their moors by hundreds of acres, 

 but by thoulands. 



But a very great and material obje6l in 

 the improvement of the moors in quefiion 



* The tenants keep every thing in repair, fo thcro 

 are no dedudtions ; likcwifc an cftatc gained without 

 a land-tax. 



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