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Whoever therefore undertakes, even in 

 the loweft ilile, to improve a moor, let 

 him lay it down as a determined point to 

 make an annual increafe of his land. He 

 may certainly make a profit without fuch 

 a plan, but I will venture to aflert that 

 profit to be trifling, compared to what he 

 would reap from a different conduct j and 

 it is very obfervable, that among the im- 

 provers I met with in the north, no one of 

 them had proceeded upon this plan, fo ex- 

 tremely requifite; and yet their improve- 

 ments were very profitable. What would 

 they not have been, had they given 

 due attention to fo indubitable an ad- 

 vantage 1 



Refpe(?l"ing the profit of this improvement, 

 it is extremely great. Suppofing it carried 

 on juft as hitherto, with the addition of 

 only twenty acres per amnim, it will be as 

 follows : The increafe of expence each 

 year is 82/. that is, 80/. fur buying flock, 

 and 2/. tithe. And the increale of pro- 

 duct is 120/. that is the flock improved by 

 twenty acres to that amount. The ac- 

 count will therefore be as follows : 



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