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on In the path of his anceflors, they will 

 ftill be found to yield great profit. 



By thefe methods, of a gentleman im- 

 proving his eflate, he makes at once better 

 intereft for his money, than nine tenths of 

 the merchants of Great Britain -, he enjoys 

 a certain perpetual return of near 20 per 

 cent, for the hazard and expenditure of a 

 fmgle year : an advantage to be found in 

 no trade whatever. 



When it is probable and even certain, 

 that fuch immenfe fortunes may be made 

 by thofe whofe eftates are fo improvable, 

 furely it much behoves all fuch landlords 

 to think more ferioufly upon the fubjedt, 

 than mofl: of them have hitherto done. It 

 is but a poor anfwer to fuch apropofition, 

 to fay that they know but little of country 

 affairs, and could not therefore engage in 

 fuch complicated works : this is the anfwer 

 of indolence or prejudice. There is no 

 work dated in the preceding improve- 

 ments, but what mofl: landlords execute at 



one time or another. Buildings mufl be 



repaired, and fometimes new ones built : 

 covered drains are made by many land- 

 lords in every part of the kingdom. 



What is there, is complicated, or fo diffi- 

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