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" one perch English measure annually; that is giving the 

 family 160 years to cut an English acre of moss: thence 

 it follows, if this improvement be carried into its ex- 

 " treme extent, — that is, if all the bog be reclaimed as soon 

 " as cut out, — we shall add annually to our profitable 

 ground 3750 acres." 



Page 25. — " I have thus opened to many in the North 

 OF England, to more in Scotland, and to immense 

 ** numbers in MY OWN Country, a sort of domestic spe- 

 culation of extreme lightness, when considered by 

 them as individuals, but of immense consequence when 

 " we view the probable result of their united efforts. 

 " I invite in some sort the mass of the people to co-operate 

 " in the improvement of their country, rather by imper- 

 " ceptible attention, than by laborious or expensive exer- 

 " tions ; and I stake my credit on the success." 



It may be thought extraordinary that I should make so 

 long a quotation from a paper already before the Public; 

 but it must be remembered, that the objects in view, when 

 those two papers were written, were totally different: — ^that 

 the former, a new style of improvement laid before a re- 

 s|>ectable Board, the proper tribunal to pronounce upon 

 the merit of all such Plans tendered to them. 



This second paper is laid before the Board of Agricul- 

 ture on their own invitation; its immediate object, exphcitly 

 pointed out by themselves, to Jind means of employment for 

 the industrious and unoccupied poor. The Board of Agri- 

 cttlture will not be displeased to find, that tlie two objects 

 Coincide, and that when 1 find copious employment for the 

 persons they point out, their labours shall contribute inost 

 powerfully to the improvement of the country : 



" Alteriws sic 



" Altera poscit opem res et coiojiiTat aiiaice." 

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