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the buildings : and there will be a double 

 ufe in this fuppofition ; for it will fhew 

 not only the real degree to which thefe 

 improvements are beneficial, but at the 

 fame time point out the advantage of land-* 

 lords improving t/oeir oivn eftates, in which 

 employment they neceflarily mufi raife the 

 buildings. 



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Six hundred and forty acres of light fandy 



foil-, old turf\ impro'ved by marie-, chalky or 



clay^ and fenced ivith hedges and ditches. 



In this, as well as the fucceeding calcu- 

 lations, I fhall fuppofe the grounds to bd 

 quite uncultivated, open, and applied to no 

 ufe, at beft but feeding fheep, or perhaps 

 rabbits. The bufmefs of improvement I 

 fuppofe to be tranfadled the firft year, which 

 may as readily be done as in any fuc- 

 ceeding one, if the money is ready; and 

 throughout all thefe eftimates, that muft 

 ever be fuppofed ; for the man who under- 

 takes improvements in agriculture without 

 his cafh in hand, or depending for any 

 part of it on contingences, had better let 

 himfelf a labourer to other?, than think of 

 being a mafter. . 



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