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fupply the market with double the quantity ir 

 has hitherto produced -, and the expcnce of cuU 

 tivation, in a great nuiiy inftances, will be lefs. 

 From the produce of the land we all cxift: : 

 from that fource all our trade derives irs ori- 

 gin and fupport. As to foreign commerce—. 

 no country would fupply us with what is ufeful 

 and agreeable, if we had nothing to give in re- 

 turn : and the greater the plenty we have of 

 the neceffaries of life, the more numerous and 

 cheap will be our manufadures to fupply the 



markets abroad. 



The cheapnefs of provifions arifing from an 

 improved method of agriculture would like- 

 wife tend to check the prefent alarming fpirit 

 of emigration ; for none would be apt to re- 

 linquiih his country and his home, if he could 

 no where live better or cheaper. 



The farmer often complains of the dearnefs 

 of labour. But the price of articles of the firft 

 necefTity muft be reduced, before that of la- 

 bour can be expefted to be lower. No man 

 can live v/ichout meat •, ftill lefs the working 

 man, who is the real fupport of all. Thou- 

 fands and tens of thoufands of pounds are loft 



for 



