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fome years after, is to each other at leaft as 

 62,560,000/. to 1 13,685,721/. For rhefake 

 of whole numbers we may perhaps ftate 

 The general ftocic in huf- } n 



bandryat J£ 110,000,000 



Suppofe this flock paysi 



an intereft of i o per ! 



*u c. c r 11,000,000 



cent, the profit of a- C 



griculture is j 



At 12 per cent, it is, - 13,200,000 



At 15 per cent. - - 16,500,000 

 At 20 per cent. - - 22,000,000 



Upon this fcale I mould remark, that the 

 profit of the kingdom's agriculture is un- 

 doubtedly a very confiderable fum. The 

 common notion of this matter is, that the 

 farmers make three rents ; one for the land- 

 lord, one for expences, and one for their 

 own profit : But this is certainly erroneous : 

 A rent will not pay expences if the hus- 

 bandry is pretty good ; and their own profit, 

 there is much reafon to believe, exceeds a 

 rent. In lands already improved, or natu- 

 rally rich, it equals it ; and in improveable 

 farms there can be no doubt of its exceed- 

 ing ir. Suppofing the equality, the aggre- 

 gate of profit amounts to 16,000,000/.$ 

 and allowing a furplus, will raife it to 

 18,000,000, and probably to twenty., 



Now a profit of from fix teen to twenty 

 millions fterling per annum moft undoubt- 

 edly cannot ante from a trifling fum in ftock; 



according 



