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dealt in very large totals, the funis ana- 

 lized, and compared with the foil and ex- 

 pence, will fliew that nothing is extrava- 

 gantly rated. Many books have been pub- 

 lifhed, that promife immenfe riches from 

 the pradicc of agriculture, not from an 

 even and inceffant induftry, but from the 

 execution of flighty and impradicablc ideas. 

 Many hundreds per cent, profit have been 

 talked of; but I am well convinced, that 

 nature, in this country at leaft, requires 

 nrl, indiijlry-i and unremitted attention in 

 the cultivators of the earth, or fhe will not 

 yield eveny??/^// profits. Virgil was of the 

 fame opinion in the warmer clime of Italy. 



Pater, ipfe colendi 



Haud fa'cilem effeviam z-oluit, primufque per art em 

 Movit agros^ curls acuens mart alia corda. 



I know not any one of thefe cflimates, 

 wherein the profit is greater than is made 

 in fome other branches of bufinefs ; and 

 not more confiderable than it really ought 

 to be, in one that ingrolTes all the time and 

 attention of a man, however fmall hijv 

 capital. 



