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The refult of this enquiry much fur- 

 prizes me. General, as well as particular 

 obfervation, has convinced numbers, in 

 every part of the kingdom, that great 

 farmers have better crops than little ones ; 

 and reafon tells us, that it would be a 

 miracle if it was not fo ; but that the 

 rife of product mould be fo regular with 

 the greatnefs of the farms, when neither 

 are taken from particular ones, but are 

 the averages of the neighbourhoods, is fur- 

 prizing ; and proves that the fuperiority of 

 great farms mull be immenfe; for mod 

 neighbourhoods have fome large ones that 

 unite with others to form each average ; 

 fo that even the loweft articles in this fcale 

 include lome advantage of great ones; con- 

 fequently, as the general balance is in fa- 

 vour of them, it mult inevitably have been 

 exceeding great had the refpective averages 

 been deduced from lingle farms. And this 

 obfervation is founded fo ftrongly in this 

 fact, that I cannot but efteem the circum- 

 flance decifive. 



The increafe of product with the fize 

 of the farms is fo regular, that it cannot 

 be attributed to chance. But there is an- 

 other circumftance, which, if any thing 

 was wanting to demonstrate this fuperi- 

 ority, would, I apprehend, effectually do 



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