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may gain great fums of money in a fliort 

 time, planting has nothing to do with the 

 affair, except in fuch fpots as I defcribed, 

 or by way of fcreens. 



I cannot but earneftly recommend to 

 the poflefibr of moors, to confider thefe 

 eftimatcs : in what other ways can they 

 gain fuch incomes, or fuch large fums of 

 money ? Thefe are not the fchemes of 

 a vifionary projeclor; but a train of 

 fa6ls, conneded and examined. They are 

 fads gained on the fpot :•— -I viewed, 

 with the utmoft attention, vaft trads of 

 thefe moors : I minuted the expence of 

 every operation in their culture : I viev^ed 

 the fields that were improved from them -, 

 I faw the cattle thofe fields carried : I 

 made memorandums of the rent. In a 

 word, I offer nothing ?2ew to thefe gentle- 

 men : I take their own fads, their acknow- 

 ledged fads — and I only fay to them. If 

 your faSfs are truCi you may^ with fuch a 

 fum of money y dofo and fo. I have merely 

 conneded fads the connedion in- 

 deed brings to light advantages to be 

 reaped, and fortunes to be gained much 

 beyond the common ideas, even of thofe 



men 



