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hundred acres, and he cultivates but ten acres, 

 and the produce fells fo high as to enable him 

 to pay the landlord his demand, and to main- 

 tain his family ; it is the fame to him as if he 

 tilled all the hundred acres properly. Suppofing 

 the ten acres to produce forty quarters q£ 

 wheat, and that wheat fold at 8/. per quarter, 

 he would receive 320/. ; and, if his rent were 

 100/. he would as an individual be better off 

 than if the whole farm had been fown with 

 wheat, and produced four hundred quarters 

 when wheat fold at 20s, per quarter. Buc 

 how muck does that injure the public at large, 

 and efpecially manufadturcs and trade, which 

 from the dearnefs of provifions muft in time 

 be inevitably diminifhed ! Beef and mutton 

 ufed to be 3^. and 4^. per pound, and are now 

 fold at jd, per pound in many places. This 

 affedts not all who eat meat, but all thofe who 

 are not concerned with the landed property — 

 the farmer the leajl. But it afFeds all mechan- 

 ics and tradefmen of every defcription. There- 

 fore it foon falls back upon the land ; for the 

 grocer muft have a greater profit on his fugar, 

 candles and foap, and the taylor more for 

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