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good Proportion, and would be near 5 times our pre- 
lent Number : And about 22 times as many, as in the 
Province of Holland. 
To People England, in a competent Time, with this 
Number 5 there are fundry ways very pra&icable. By 
which, I have computed, the prefent Number may be 
doubled in 24 or 25 Years. And probably quadrupled 
in about ]6 Years; 
One of thefe Ways, tho’ not the fpeediefl, would be 
the introducing of Strangers : Yet to make ufe of this, 
or of any other Way, to multiply the People, before 
we have provided the Means of Employing them, (as 
was lately done) would be prepofterous. 
But when we fhall once, in good earneft, mind ourTrue 
Intereft, in Employing, and Encouraging, every where, 
our own Hands, and the Hands of other Nations, as the 
French and Dutch do, in all the forts of Husbandry, 
Manufa&ury, and Merchantry: When our Nobility and 
Gentry themfelves, fhall, as in fome other Countries, 
be Examples in fome or other of thefe Particulars : 
When we fhall hereby be univerfally engag’d to Inclofe, 
and to Improve, every Foot of our Land 5 to make the 
utmoft life of all our Home Growths, above and under 
Ground , and of all our Ports, (about 200 great and 
fmall,) more than in all the Kingdoms and States of 
Europe put together : And when Scotland and Ireland , 
fhall both of them afterwards be Improved in like man- 
ner : Wtien all Mens Heads and Hands fhall be thus 
Employed, about fome one Honeft and Profitable Bufi- 
nefs$ as it will naturally promote every where Peace 
and Friendfhip among us 5 fo is it eafy for anyconfider- 
ing Man to forefee, how highly it will advance the 
Britijh Monarchy and People, at Home and all over the 
World, in Beauty, Strength, and Glory. 
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