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have a command of working hands, fl'om' 

 regularity of employment : He ^vould like- 

 wife have a moft profitably conflituted farm 

 always in hand, viz. a third part turnips, 

 a third oats, and a third grafs ; and he 

 would every year let a new farm : This is 

 the moft profitable bufmefs in the world. 

 But it would take me too much befide my 

 prefent purpofe, to explain or calculate it 

 fully here. 



The improvemiCnt of the boggy moors, 

 which is the Jixfh article is in all refpe<5ls 

 the fame as the preceding, except the article 

 of draining, which is thefirft bufmefs to be 

 undertaken : This miuft vary according to 

 the nature of the land; if it is ftoney, the 

 fmaller forts of drains (provided the bog is 

 not fo deep that they would fink and be 

 buried, which upon the moors is fcarce ever 

 the cafe) fbould be covered ones, but if 

 ftones are fcarce, then the drains ihould all 

 be open ; the cxpence of the improvement 

 depends upon the number of the drains, 

 which muif necefiarily be various in every 

 acre of land, confequently no exad: efiimate 

 can be made : But the profit of draining 

 them cannot be doubted, for there is great 

 reafon to apprehend the foil of thefe wet 

 parts naturally more fertile than the dry. 

 ones ; the afiies of them, when burnt, area 

 moft excellent manure, and the Grumblings' 

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