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The capital pays 9 /. S s. per cent. 

 which I apprehend will be thought conii- 

 derable ; for it depends on no chance of 

 bufinefs, but is a certainty; that is, as much 

 a certainty as the rental of any eftate. 

 Many gentlemen buy eftates, and make 

 2-1 or 3 per cent, of their money, while 

 they might reap 9, 10, and I2, by expend- 

 ing the Tame fums upon the improvement 

 of the land they already poflefs. 



Variation the fifth. 

 Six hundred and forty acres of bog-land 

 improved. 

 There are many forts of boggy m.arfhy 

 foils in this kingdom, too many indeed to 

 affign a calculation to each ; but there is 

 no neceffity for that, nor much ufe in it> 

 as the grand heads of improvement for 

 them all is the fame, viz. draining. The 

 great mifchief of thefe foils is the exceflive 

 wetnefs of them, and the palpable remedy 

 for it is nothing but draining. There is 

 no pcflibility, in a moderate compafs, to 

 ftate every part of the im.provement of 

 marflies and bogs ; it will, therefore, be 

 the cleared and moftcomprehenfive method, 



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