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very advantageous works as filling cart, and 

 hedging and ditching, and all by the mca- 

 fare, fo that they miglit by working hard, 

 earn as much as they pleafed, would flock 

 from all parts to reap advantages they 

 could gain no where elfe. But it is cer- 

 tain, they would earn greatly more than 

 25/. a man at the high prices I have 

 Hated ; and confequently not fo many be 

 requifite. 



No one I think can obje6l, to the total 

 quantity of the land ; I can refer fuch to 

 many parts of England^ v»^here inflead of 

 11,000 they may have feveral hundred 

 thoufands of fuch acres. 



But at lad comes the old queflion, Why 

 has nobody executed fuch a plan^ fi^'^^'^g ^bat 

 every landlord mujl know as much cf the mat- 

 ter as you ^ I am by no means bound to 

 anfvver this query; it comes not within 

 the verge of any calculation. But I fliali 

 jufthint that a man's pofrcfllng the know- 

 ledge of certain circumftances of import- 

 ance, is in fucli cafes of little utility, un- 

 lefs he throws them together, and exa- 

 mines the refult of every connection. To 

 marie an acre colis 3 /. ; to build a houfe, 

 300 /.5 to make a fence, 35. a perch. Land 

 5 worth 



