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 quantity of corn raifed, from that eaten by 

 fifteen or twenty people. 



The proportions of the different grains 

 I have taken from a variety of minutes in a 

 courfe of five and twenty hundred miles, 

 through all forts of foils; the averages of 

 which I can fcarcely believe to be deceitful. 

 The growth of each per acre is taken, with 

 great exactnefs, from the fame minutes, 

 and is the average of fo confiderable a part 

 of the kingdom. 



In refpect to the number of acres in 

 England, I adopt the affertion of a very 

 accurate writer; but I mould remark, that 

 the greateft reductions, according to the 

 lowejt eitimat.es ever made, will not bring 

 the above quantities near to thofe of the 

 author of the Three Tracts. For confi- 

 dering that he includes Wales, my totals 

 are near three times larger than his. Now 

 if my data are fo very falfe, the total 

 amount of product:, which I have made 

 JT. 83,237,691, would be reduced to little 

 more than a third of that fum; which 

 iingle ftate of the cafe is fufficient to prove, 

 that this gentleman's data are erroneous. 

 For I ill all by and by mew, that fuch a 

 product would not amount to half the 

 expenditure of hufbandry; and that the 

 farmers, inftead of making fortunes, would 

 all ftarve. 



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