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cultivating fuch foils ; for lo per ce?Jt. 

 profit on a farm, after the expenditure of 

 above 7000 /. in preparing the land for 

 occupation, is very great, and fuch as 

 fliould fatisfy the moft ambitious. All the 

 dedud;ions on account of labour being 

 made, and the farm left in grafs, the 

 gentleman may reafonably be fuppofed to 

 pofTefs an advantage equal to this, as the 

 nature of grafs-farms is fo favourable to 

 him. 



I need not hint, that the profit w^ould 

 be much larger if the landlord was induced 

 to ere£t the buildings, or the walls, in con- 

 fideration of the greatnefs of the other 

 expences ; and it can fcarcely be thought 

 that any but very poor, or very ignorant 

 ones, would forego the benefits of fuch 

 noble improvements to themfelves and their 

 poftcrity, rather than part with an incon- 

 iiderable fum of money. In a word, there 

 is fcarce a calculation in thefe fheets, 

 but what might be exceeded in reality : 

 which moderation was requifite to prevent 

 the objcdions of backward flothful people 

 who, wanting the fpirit to form improve- 

 ments themfelves, endeavour dreamingly 



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