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worth IS. 6d, worth loj. can any one 

 from fuch unconnected circumflances 

 dream of another nhiety thoufand pounds 

 profit in eight years. The data themfelves 

 are not of more ufe, than the capacity to 

 arrange and calculate them. Few land- 

 lords will give themfelves the trouble to 

 gain the requifite knowledge of certain 

 circum.ftances, and then to calculate the 

 refult of expending a given fum of money, 

 according to the principles on which thofe 

 circumfiiances are founded. And I flatter 

 myfelf, that thefe eftimates, fuppofing 

 them ever fo incorrect and miftaken in the 

 fums, may yet be of no trifling ufe to thofe 

 who may think of calculating an im- 

 provement.—^ — ^But there remains yet an- 

 other circumflance to be confidered. 



There are many farmers poffeffing con- 

 fiderable fums of money, and fixed in thefe 

 countries, who ufe marie, and yet make 

 no fuch fortunes as I have fuppofed j but 

 this is no objection. I have not recom- 

 mended to any improver to turn farmer : 

 farming and improving are effentially dif- 

 ferent let the landlord ever make the 



former fubfervient to the latter j never let 



him (when making much money is his 



A a 4 plan) 



