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wbat a field do I open for the employment of the i?iclus' 

 trious and unoccupied ! The very expenment will afford 

 much, without opening a source of fraud and imposition. 

 Let the proprietor employ a party, from six to tv.eh e, of 

 his distressed tenants or neighbours. He points out to them 

 the field for their exertions, the fountain of their present 

 relief, and I hope the theatre of his own approaching 

 enrichment. He puts this party into the hands of a discreet 

 person, with the above direction of mine as the rules they 

 are to be governed by. He orders them to commence, and 

 proceed one, tno, or three weeks. He then examines the 

 area they have brought within this new pale of improve- 

 ment. He pronounces whether, at this ascertained expendi- 

 ture, he has done enough for an experiment ; and, in pro- 

 portion to his confidence in yne, and his zeal to find 

 employment for the industrious and unoccupied, he 

 will stop to await the result, or he will venture a few 

 weeks more, and perhaps increase the number of his parties 

 of labourers. 



The success will by no means be equivocal; his opera- 

 tions have changed the broicn surface of his mountains in:o 

 black, and he must wait with patience for the next season 

 of powerful vegetation, to see if nature has answered his 

 call, and is proceeding in her usual way to clothe his black 

 surface with a green sole. I envy him the pleasure he 

 will feel, when he observes the nascent grasses appearing 

 gradually, and occupying in succession the favourable soil 

 he has prepared for them ; and I anticipate the exultation 

 with which he will, from a distance, point out the contrast 

 between the splendid glow of his own area, and the 

 sombrous gloom of what still remain^ in the possession of 

 its old occupants, the heath. 



