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 Ken'ceit appears that a profitable improve- 

 ment of moors cannot be undertaken with 

 a Prilling lefs capital than i;. Si/. 12 s, 6d, 

 clear of all extraneous expences: no main- 

 tenance of family — no private expences 

 -j-no connection with another farm : this 

 amount mufl be clear, and facredly applied 

 to the improvement alone. The largenefs 

 of it gives us at once the reafon of fo few 

 improvements of this fort being made ; 

 and of the opinion of the unprofitable- 

 nefs of the work : — men who have thought 

 of improvements, and began to execute 

 them, have never confidered the great im- 

 portance of a regular condu6l in the work. 

 They have fome money in their pocket, 

 Vv'hich they are willing to lay out in fuch 



a work ; they begin it they inclofe 



twenty acres. They pare, burn, lime, 

 plough it, and fow turnips : by that time, 

 if they calculate at all, they find they have 

 not teams enough for the tillage and har- 

 veding twenty acres of oats, and at the 

 fame time improve another twenty acres — 

 and yet lefs to add as much every year-^ 

 their money prcfcntly falls fhort, aad a gap 

 is made in the improvement till more is 

 readv. I could prove to demonftration, 'y 



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