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walles that to the difgrace of the kingdom ex- 

 ift here in fuch abundance. If the truly patri- 

 otic propofal of that philanthropift. Sir John 

 Sinclair, for a general inciofure of comnnons 

 had been carried into efFefl, we fhould in a 

 little tioie have increafed our population, have 

 found plenty of employment for the laborious 

 poor, and have afforded our numerous mecha- 

 nics and artifans provifions at a cheap rate — 

 the grand defideratum in a country depending 

 fo much on the auxiliary aid of manufa6lurers 

 and commerce. The prefent miferable ftate of 

 Holland affords a ftrikinglefibn of the inftabi- 

 iity of trade ; and of the diftrefTes a nation is 

 liable to, which without internal agricultural 

 refources relies folely on comm^ercefor the im- 

 portation of the necefiaries of life. 



However high the fcience of Agriculture is 

 at prefent, and however near perfe6lion fome 

 perfons may fuppofe it has arrived, I do nothe- 

 fitate to affert that, take all fuch land through 

 the kingdom as is in a ftate of cultivation, it 

 does not produce one third of what it is capa- 

 ble pf. Surely no one will deny, if my alTer- 

 tion be fa6l, the necefTity of improvement; and 



I flatter 



