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 eftimate. The next in this lift, as in the; 

 farmer's, is the muir-land relet, which is 

 a point of very great confequence ; for no 

 wafte lands in the kingdom are fo extenfive 

 as thefe : none brings lefs benefit to their 

 owners, nor polTefs, in many inftances, 

 greater advantages in the culture ; but as I 

 remarked in the other cafe, it would be 

 unfair in me 'to calculate lipon any thing 

 beyond the average. If a man had the 

 advantage of chufmg, no uncultivated foil 

 would prove more beneficial, if fo mxuch' 

 fo ; for many trads of the muirs are as 

 fine deep loams as any in England. 



The fandy heath, let after improvement, 

 and the muir occupied, yield the fame 

 profit; confequently, the former is to be 

 preferred, as it is a certainty, and not 

 dependent on the contingencies of a bufi- 

 nefs. The bog-farm concludes, firft rekt, 

 and, Lift of all, occupied. 



Upon the whole, the breaking up and 

 improving wafte lands appears, in thefe 

 calculations, to be a bufinefs of very great 

 profit ; and that, under circumftances verf 

 peculiar in themfelves, and much more 

 burthenfome in the expences than va,ft 



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