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nagement can bring an advance to izs. or 

 15 J. the condu6t here propofed is very 

 moderately eftimated at 20 s. — — Nor is 

 the rent of thofe badly improved moors 

 too high ; I viewed many fuch fields, and 

 think them well worth the money : Were 

 I to live in that country, I would readily 

 give 15 J. an acre for them: and I faith- 

 fully affure the reader, that I would in the 

 like circumftances agree to give 20 s. an 

 acre for fuch grafs as my propofed methods 

 would form. 



In anfwei* to thefe afTertions, it may be 

 rationally afked, If what you fay is truct 

 how come the landlords and fantiers of this 

 jirange country to be fo blind to their intere/l ? 

 I'd be able to make above 60,000 L in 11 years, 

 from fo fmall afum as 3000 /. is fo enormous 

 a profit, that it.muji ftrike every one. This 

 may feem a puzzling queftion, and I will 

 anfwer it fatisfaclorily, when I am fatis- 

 fadtorily anfwered fome quellions of my 

 own. How comes many farmers in the norih, 

 to keep from 5 to 40,000 foeep^ and yet fic-vcr 

 fold them ? It is afa^ that fiich farmers Ife 

 from 500/. to 2000 I. a year in this manner, 

 — How likewife comes it that fuch farmers re- 

 tain their old wretched brsed offi^'p^ when a 



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