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 vafl: importance. Here are no hazards, no 

 chances annexed to bulmefs, no coniine- 

 ment; but, on the contrary, a profit aa 

 fure as the rental of any other landed 

 eftate. In a word, it is a mod beneficial 

 employment of a gentleman's money, and 

 equally advantageous to private and public 

 interefts. 



The next clafs in this table, is the muir- 

 farm, occupied with gentlemen, and let 

 with the farmers ; and the laft with both, 

 the fandy farm, let after improvement, 

 which yields a profit but inconfiderable 

 compared with the reft. 



Upon the whole, there appears great 

 reafon, from thefe calculations, to aflert the 

 general profit of improving wafte lands, 

 which, in numbers of thefe inftances, is a 

 bufinefs more advantageous than any man 

 can apply to. There are very few fitua- 

 tions in commerce, manufadtures, the 

 profefilons, or indeed any other path of 

 making a fortune, fo truly advantageous 

 as agriculture, when entered into with 

 judgment, and conducted with fpirit. 



I forbear the further extenfion of thefe 



chapters, as the bulk to which thefe fheets 



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