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From this little fketch we at once find 

 mod of the contradictions removed , it ap- 

 pears, that rent muft not be our guide to 

 difcover the nature of the foil, but the 

 fize of the flocks ; for large flocks are rare- 

 ly kept in rich countries ; and this circum- 

 ftance of rent being deceitful, arifes, as I 

 before remarked, from the waftes and 

 wilds that chiefly maintain fheep not be- 

 ing characterized by the rent fo much as 

 the cultivated parts of the country. We 

 find that the profit of fheep depends, at 

 prefent, much upon the foil ; for where 

 rlocks rife on an average to ipbB, the pro- 

 lit is only 6 s. 6 d. but where they are not 

 more numerous than 272, it riles to near 

 three times as muchj which is a remarkable 

 difference. 



The lownefs of the profit through fuch 

 an extenfive track as all thefe countries, in 

 which it rifes no higher than ioj. calls 

 for fome attention. Is 6 s. 6 d. an ade- 

 quate return for a year's keeping of a 

 iheep ? Surely not. From whence comes, 



then, 



