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LETTER XXXIV. 



T Mud, in the next place, enter upon a. 

 -*■ review of perhaps the moft important 

 part of the intelligence I generally received, 

 that of the particulars of farms. There are 

 numerous lights in which they mull: be 

 viewed, and all of them fo connected with 

 utility, that I fcarcely know which is moil 

 important. There has not, of late years, 

 been any fubject in political ceconomy that 

 has been more debated, than the fize of 

 farms that is molt advantageous : The im- 

 portance of having the kingdom divided 

 into fuch as are moft favourable to product, 

 and induftrious population, is apparent and 

 undifputed ; but the moft advantageous 

 proportions are unknown. Upon this very 

 important fubject, the publick has hitherto 

 received no other information, or fatisfac- 

 tion, than what is to be had from reafon- 

 ing ; we have had volumes of reafons, 

 arguments, and opinions, upon this point, 

 but fcarce any facts ; it is, therefore, with 

 peculiar fatisfaction, that I mail endeavour 

 to treat the fubject in a new way, by pre- 

 ferring facts. In every branch of agricul- 

 ture. 



