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Before the fubje6l is well confiderecl, 

 fome obje6lions may pofllbly be made on 

 the fcore of the exteiit of fome of the an- 

 nual improvements : it may perhaps be 

 thought diOicult to procure the requifite 

 number of hands of all forts: but whoever 

 will refled on the matter with a little at- 

 tention, will be convinced of the contrary. 

 This point is one grand reafon for my be- 

 ing fo very particular in recommending a 

 liridi determination to improve frefh land 

 every year, to make no gap in the under- 

 taking : this has been done more than once 

 by improvers, the lofs attending it is al- 

 ways great, and in fuch large under- 

 takings as I have recommended, would, in 

 the refpe6l I am now treating of, be fatal. 

 If you want five hundred labourers, two 

 hundred builders, ^c. all to go to work 

 at once, every man muft be fenfible of the 

 impoffibility of getting them : if you want 

 but (ifry of a fort to be at work only in a 

 certain month, the like difficulty may be 

 found. Thefe are not the inquiries, be- 

 caufe it is not the plan of operation : I 

 every where on this and other accounts, 

 have recommended to increafe the works 

 gradually : there is no moor to be found, 

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