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several Members of the Board to desist from 
enlarging their parks and pleasure-grounds, 
which are already enormously over-grown. 
The relative price of corn and cattle will, 
in a given period, regulate themselves. 
There is a large portion of soil in these king- 
doms, in the hands of Proprietors and occu- 
piers, called ‘ up and down land,^ under the 
turnip and seed husbandry. V/hen corn is 
at an high price, they keep it more imme- 
diately under the plough ; and when fat cattle 
and sheep bear a higher comparative price 
than corn, they lay such land down for pas- 
ture. 
In the volume w^hich Mi\ Young has 
written, most professedly for the purposes 
stated in the title-page of his pamplet, ‘ The 
Question of Scarcity plainly considered," in 
wliich all the material causes of the present 
high price of corn must have passed in re- 
view before his mind, it is very extraordinary 
that it escaped his recolieclion to remark, that 
great waste of the provisions for the suste- 
nance of man must frequently happen where 
