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If this be the cafe, we.do not pretend to alter the computa- tion, by faying, that every perfon, old and young, employed in agriculture as a fcience or trade, could raife, upon an average, more grain than would fupport 4 other perfons be. fides himfelf, after defraying the other neceflities of the farm; for we believe that if 48 or$o people, old and young, in pro- portion to the raifers, were to be billeted upon fach a farm as we have mentioned, they and the people upon the farm would find fall ufe for all the productions of it, after fupport-

ing the cattle,&c. and fowing the ground.

But if there are more people, the numbers of the corn- {o, in proportion to the number of the

other members of the community, which will make no dif-

ference in the other parts of the calculation; and from every

confideration we have had in view, and every Judgment we c

an form, we are apt to imagine that there are at leaft-2 nul- 3 Ω

I lions of people, old and young, employed in agriculture in Great Britain, befx

1 ARE ARR) DS RRAlS CRU te ee À es r"PI:° the other branches of the community are in proportion. This xx nl]

wouit make the population of the country amount to about 11 millions.

In flating this number, we have, among other confde- rations, taken the taxes or public revenue, under review, amounung to 15 millions of pounds Sterling, all which muft

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: from the induftry of the people at large*; for thofe

HS NAS ÉtR n EL A Te à DS 1 se vas Written M the year 1786, when the public revenue rather exceeded fifteem ullions. Edit.

e the cottagers; and that the numbers of