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labour of the industrious and unoccupied, two important 

 points will be Camed ; — improvement will advance, and 

 employment will be found for the distressed labourers. 



But who can expect that the Parliament, after having 

 been already so gulled, will again embark in this adventure V. 

 The great proprietor is differently circumstanced ; it is upon 

 his own estate the improvement is to be carried on, and the 

 ground reclaimed must in some years revert to himself. 

 Besides, the persons who will earn the money he is laying 

 out, are probably (and he may make it a condition) his 

 own starving tenants, or under-tenants. His own situation, 

 or that of his agent, must enable him to see that he is not 

 imposed on. Let him give, at his own suit, a small n umber 

 of the distressed and unoccupied labourers to as n^iany in- 

 dustrious tenants, holding the edge of his bog, as he finds 

 willing to engage in the work with spirit : let him stipulate 

 the assistance the tenant himself is to give in cai'rying on 

 his own work for his own sole benefit during his leevse ; and 

 let the landlord rigidly hold in his own hand, the payment 

 of these additional forces he has raised for the melioration 

 of his own estate, and for the laudable purposes held out by 

 the Board of Agriculture. 



There is an extensive description of peaty surface 

 spread over much of England as well as the other parts of 

 the United Kingdom, which I am sanguine enough to 

 hope would admit a considerable degree of improvement 

 at an expense within bounds ; and at the same time wo.^ld 

 afford employment to the industrious and unoccupied, 



I mean peat moss thinly covering a barren vapid sand,, 

 and generally clothed with a poor stunted heath. I know 

 not a description of ground more decidedly unproductive;, 

 and which seems improvable for agricultural purposf3s 

 only by the importation of a firmer material, and its mixtu re 

 with stimulating manure. 



