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great. Thefe 3000 acres of land are ma- 

 naged with the utmoft fimplicity. The 

 labour is trifling, and the attention of the 

 cultivator fo little divided, that he may 

 almoft be faid to lead a ]^£c of idlenefs, at 

 the fame time that he trades as profitably 

 as the moft affiduous fons of care. If he 

 lives upon a thoufand a year, he may lay 

 up four thoufand ; or, in other v^ords, be 

 worth 100,000 /. In lefs than twenty-five 

 years, and that without reckoning the com- 

 pound interefl, or the placing the favlngs 

 at any but common fecurities. 



Variation the third, 

 thirteen hundred acres arahlcy the foil clay 

 or loatn^ and ciilti'vated upon improved 

 principles ; cabbages and lucerne. 



One of the great excellencies of this ac- 

 curate culture is, bringing the employment 

 of a large fum in ilock into the contracted 

 fphere~of a farm comparatively fmall. 

 Thirteen hundred acres cannot be called a 

 very large one, as there are many in almofl 

 every county of England, three, and four 

 times as large ; and yet we Ihall find this 



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