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try a mode in which we cannot be misled as to expense ; 

 but be able to calculate it with precision before we com- 

 mence. 



Let the great proprietors of grassy mountains relieve 

 Iheir distressed tenants, by employing the industHous and 

 unoccupied, in executing such operations as I recommend, 

 whether under the name of experiment or actual practice 

 I care not ; let them send parties of ten or twelve, pro- 

 perly governed, into different parts of their wilds; let 

 them point out the commencement for each, and desire 

 them to proceed according to my directions. After such 

 a time as the proprietor can afford to employ them, he 

 tries what work they have each executed, and he knows 

 to a shilling what he has expended ; he can judge w^hether 

 the prospect of valuable improvement held out by me be 

 realized; and whether, when the present stimulus of finding 

 employment for the poor be over, it is worth his while to 

 continue the same operations, with no other view than 

 that of the benefit he is to derive from them. Shall he 

 determine it is not, he has at least the consolation of 

 knowing, that every shilling he has expended on my spe- 

 culations, has been divided among his own industrious 

 tenants, and that he has better bestowed it, in giving 

 employrtient with it, than if he had distributed it among them 

 gratis. 



