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ment for gentlemen, and not In a light only 

 of amufcment, but alfo of profit, and the 

 difpofition of large fums of money. Any 

 bufmefs, that will not admit very large fums 

 in ftock, is, in the refpedts of which I am 

 treating, ufelefs. It has been objeded to 

 agriculture, that its profits are indeed great, 

 but that large fums of money cannot be 

 employed in it ; and confequently the pro- 

 grejfwn of Jlock^ which is the foul of com- 

 merce, cannot take place ; but I exped 

 that the enfuing calculations will difprove 

 fuch an idea. In one branch common fenfe, 

 at one glance, tells us, there is no end of 

 an increafing flock, 'viz. grafing, in which 

 forty thoufand pounds may be as eafily 

 employed as fo many hundreds. 



N^ I. 



Three thoufand acres ^ the foil clay or loam\ 

 one third grafs^ and tnvo thirds arable. 



In farms of this extent, fome variation 

 may be fuppofcd in the rent ; I have there- 

 fore rated it at two valuations. The reader 

 will alfo remark fome other variations from 

 preceding accounts, which arc requifite in 



fo large a bufinefs. 



Stock, 



