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takes in every advantage and difadvantage 

 of all fized farms; for the farmers (four 

 fouls for each) are reckoned to each quan- 

 tity of land that forms a farm in the pro- 

 portion of every fcale. And even fuppo- 

 fing my data, of four and live to one, for 

 farmers and labourers, to be falfe, yet the 

 proportions between the farms remain juft 

 as they would, were any other imaginary 

 number fixed on. 



It is to be remarked here, that the rental 

 is what we muft take as our principal 

 guide. Rich foils are, in every part of the 

 world, better peopled than poor ones. If 

 the arable acres were to be our guide, the 

 comparifon would not be fo exact; as the 

 fize of the farms would not determine the 

 degree of population, but the richnefs of the 

 foil. Whatever were the numbers of acres 

 in the farms, the rich foils would univerfally 

 prove the moil: populous. But the rental 

 (though not always the exact value of the 

 land) is a good index to the nature of the 

 country, and throws all farms on a par : All 

 the collateral advantages of the calculation 

 are the fame to both -, confequently there is 

 no objection to the ufe of that method which 

 is obvioufly the faireft. But for the ufe of 

 thofe who are curious enough to view thefe 

 matters in every light, I fhall confider the 

 one as well as the other. 



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