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examine them ; but much might be done by 

 proper encouragements ; by judicious leafes ; 

 by tranfplantation of farmers and labourers ; 

 and, above all, by the government always 

 keeping the products of the foil at an high 

 price; which is done chiefly by a regular 

 exportation ; and a bounty at certain prices. 



We have found, that part of the products 

 of the foil dependant on hufbandry, exclu- 

 sive of woods, timber, parks, mines, fifheries, 

 &c. to amount to above eighty-three millions 

 fer annum ; and with a few improvements, 

 of a moh: eafy nature, and extremely evident, 

 might be augmented thirty mil/ions more, 

 exclulive of any augmentation from breaking 

 up wafte lands. Now the great importance 

 of knowing the amount and nature of the 

 general products of the foil, lies in its rela- 

 tion to fupporting a (hare of the public re- 

 venue. It is always of ufe to know in what 

 degree a nation is flourishing or declining, 

 which can only be done by difcovering the 

 proportion between the wants of the go- 

 vernment and the ability of the nation to 

 fupport them. 



It has been of late the fafhion among fome 

 of the numerous divifwns, I cannot call them 

 parties, into which public men have ar- 

 ranged themfelves, to reprefent this country 

 in a moft deplorable iituation ; as over- 

 whelmed with debts and expences, and un- 

 able 



