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foul of improvements : in this refpe(5i', 

 agriculture is the fame thing as commerce: 

 if a merchant has an eftate and wants 

 money, he does not trade out of his landed 

 favings, but mortgages for the fum he 

 wants, which becomes in one fum of ten 

 times the confequence of the fame amount 

 in an annual trifling portion. If the gen- 

 tleman in the preceding fuppofition, in- 

 flead of a6ling with fuch vigour, as to 

 have the command of 10,000/. at once, 

 had only appropriated 2 or 300/. a year 

 from his incoir^e to the improvement ; the 

 advantages there ftated, would have been 

 the work of near forty years, and at laft not 

 equal to the fame improvements operated 

 in a twelfth part of the time. For thefe 

 and many other reafons of undoubted im- 

 portance, I venture to afTert, that the im- 

 provements in queftion ought never to be 

 provided for by a fmall annual fum, which 

 is confequently liable to a thoubnd different 

 appropriations; but always fecure in a 

 proportioned fum raifed at once by mort- 

 gage or otherwife, and demandable at dif- 

 ferent times at pleafure. 



The Nobility and Gentry ought in this 

 refpe^l to act like merchants : they llionld 



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