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cheap, and at the fame time good method 

 of culture, into a country, io as to make 

 it common, without virtually railing his 

 rents ; befides the fatisfaction which, I am 

 confident, numbers muft feel at being fer- 

 viceable to their country. 



It is an object, likewife, worthy the at- 

 tention of the Society for the encourage- 

 ment of arts, manufactures, and commerce, 

 who might eafily devife an honorary pre- 

 mium for gentlemen that executed luch a 

 plan with fpirit, over an eftate (heretofore 

 cultivated in the old cujlomai'y way) of a 

 certain extent. 



Every column of this table is pregnant 

 with contradictions. In that of depth, they 

 ftir in loam three quarters of an inch deeper 

 than in fand, and in clay within half an 

 inch. This certainly indicates, that cuf- 

 tom prefcribes alfo a certain depth in each 

 neighbourhood, which is followed impli- 

 citly upon all foils, without any variation ; 

 and this cuftom, as evidently, is the child 

 of chance, not reafon. 



The column of price is alfo very curious ; 

 upon clay a (hilling per acre cheaper than 

 upon fand or loam, which are equal. This 

 is a freih proof that the whole is guided by 

 chance-founded cuftoms, and in nothing by 

 the nature of the foil. 



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