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to be ikeir opinion, that this is the most favourable 

 moment chosen, for engaging- in such improvements ; 

 CAPITAL is not required, and whatever is to be expended 

 will be laid out in manual labour alone ; und at this very 

 moment we see great landed proprietors and other public- 

 spirited gentlemen, as well as that honourable Board, ex- 

 erting themselves to create employment for the industrious 

 but distressed labourers and manufacturers, at present 

 thrown out of work. 



How then could such unfortunate and suffering people 

 be better relieved, than by applying their labour to the 

 permanent improvement of the country, by engaging them, 

 by contract or daily labour, in the formation of those en- 

 closures I shall mention, and in the execution of the other 

 more diminutive works I shall point out. 



Our Grassy Mountains , are chiefly employed as 

 pasture, and in that view alone I shall at present consider 

 them ;— stocked with many flocks and herds through the 

 summer, not one of which they are able to sustain through 

 the winter, or even should a few starvelings be left, half of 

 them perish from cold and want of food. 



Hence the winter sustenance of the mountain stock 

 must be sought for elsewhere than at home, or they must 

 be disposed of at low rates, to the inhabitants of milder 

 regions, who contrive means of sustaining them. Thus 

 it appears, the great desideratum in mountain pastures is 

 winter food for their cattle. — Teach their occupants to 

 raise provender within themselves, and so to maintain their 

 stock at home, through the winter, and you increase their 

 profits, and of course the value of mountain lands, tenfold. 



This is my present object ; and I hope to show that this 

 important point may be carried at light expense, and in a 

 short time, that is, in the very first year in which the 

 necessary operations are commenced early, and with spirit. 



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