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L E T T E Pv XIIL 



J-T A V I N G, in the preceding Letters, pro- 

 pofed the improvement of feveral forts 

 of wafte land, as well as the raifmg the 

 rents of that which is cultivated — I (hall 

 now, my Lords and Gentlemen, take my 

 leave, with offering a few general remarks 

 on thefe fubjecSls — explanatory of certain 

 prciimftances, not fufhciently touched up- 

 on in the former Letters. 



I fliall beg leave firfb to obferve, that 

 the PuBLiCK Good is intimately concerned 

 in all fuch undertakings as I have here pro- 

 pofed J indeed the general interefbs of the 

 State receive as gr^at benefits as indivi- 

 duals from fuch works, for the riches of 



the nation are increafed j the income ; 



" — and alfo the induftrious population. 

 The improver makes half a million of 

 pioney clear profit : this is aduaily created, 

 and almoftout of nothing ; it is a fund of 

 wealth that did not exift before, and is 

 jconfequently a clear addition to the na- 

 tion's 



