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as the new grounds I mean to bring into pro- 

 fit, which the agriculturist would not deign 

 to expend labour upon ; will, I hop , cifford 

 not only pasture^ but r^ i/ifer/ood for fattening 

 cattle ; not indeed for beasts of sixty stone, 

 but I answer for cattle forty stone, and 

 to the full as good animal food for every pur- 

 pose, but exportation. 



You say, " Nothing short of a miracle can 

 stop the population of Ireland I admit o^ir 

 population has been long increasing with 

 alarming rapidity ; your increase in England, 

 even during a bloody war, has been very for- 

 midable ; but the question, whether it would 

 be possible^ and prudent^ to arrest the progress 

 of this population, is not the one inunedi- 

 ately before us ;— admitting it to be decided 

 in the affirmative, I much doubt our powers 

 of interfering successfully ; the measures that 

 have already been suggested for the purpose, 

 are most of them z^eak ; some of them have 

 been pronounced wicked, and I fear all in- 

 applicable. 



We are not now to trouble ourselves with 

 such speculations ; let us exert ourselves to 

 raise food and find employment for our 



