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attention, upon a bufinefs which cannot 

 make him the returns he ought to receive. 

 With what care and penetration Ihould he 

 view the farm that is offered him ? How 

 clearly fhould he calculate the probable 

 expences, produce, and profit of it, that 

 he may know, before he engages, w^hat he 

 has reafon to expedt. Let him not, on fuch 

 an occafion, forget, that with looo /. he 

 may, in one kind of farm, make double 

 the profit that he can with above 1200/. in 

 another. 



The table of the progrefTion of the 

 gentleman's profit alfo afTords matter for 

 refledlion, which fliould not be flighted. 

 In all common farms he is inferior to the 

 common farmer ; in the calculation this 

 inferiority is confined to the article of la- 

 bour, which, in many farm.s, particularly 

 arable ones, amounts to a vafl: difference; 

 and as thofc other points of comparative 

 difadvantagc under which gentlemen liei 

 abound mofl in the fame, they render fuch 

 farms very precarious ; the more labour 

 implies the more arable land; and confe~ 

 quently, the more complex bufinefs, to 

 which a gentleman can fcarcely give the 



farmer's 



