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 removals as the death of a bi/hopi but 

 they are nothing ; the number is the fame 

 as before. Into a new farm the cafe is very 

 different ; for though a farmer comes into 

 it, who you knew to be a farmer before ; 

 yet, could you trace the whole line of al- 

 terations, you would find at the end of it 

 the creation of a new one ; or at leaft fe- 

 veral fmall, becoming large ones. 



But the grand point of induftrious po- 

 pulation being increafed by fuch works 

 will admit of no difpute ; and the vaft im- 

 portance of fuch increafe is equally indif- 

 putable* 



For thefe reafons, men who have the 

 fpirit to undertake fuch improvements, 

 have alfo the fatisfa6lion of knowing that 

 they add to their country's welfare, in pro- 

 portion as they increafe their private 

 wealth. Hence fiirely king's minlfters, 

 and flatefmen fliould give a particular and 

 marked attention to the encouragement of 

 fuch improvements; and to the means of 

 promoting and acquiring the due know- 

 ledge of the fubjecl ; that clearnefs and pre- 

 cifion may be found in every circumftance 

 concerning works of (o great and indubi- 

 table importance. 



I have 



