LETF. IE

y m).

252 L'EÉPETDERAEH.

to 4000 Îbs, of hay, and 561 Winchéfter bufhels in 200 days, but, with extra feeding, fuppofe

60 bufhels, the produce of: 1 fertile acre 4000 pounds of hay, or 352 cwt. the produce of 1 fertile acre Ât pafture, 165 days, when he eats the grafs of 1 fertile acre

À horfe therefore confumes the produce of 3 fertile acres; and 2 millions of horfes will require 6 millions of fertile acres to maintain them. Upon this calculation, Great Bri- tain will confume on horfes annually, 15 millions of quar- ters of grain, of which, about one million is now imported from foreign nations; befides, the produce of 4 millions of

acres of fertile land in hay and pafture.

In the period from 1730, to 1750, when Great Britain was exporting the greateft quantity of furplus corn, after fupplying tlie inhabitants, the tunnage of her fhipping amounted, upon an average of that period only to 475,940 tuns, whereas it now amounts to near three times as much, being in the year 1702, 1,396,003 tuns*. The revenue arifing from the poft-office in the year 1754 amounted to only L. 210,663: it was in 1703, L.607,268; from which it may be fafely inferred, that the in- ternal commerce of Great Britain has been tripled fince the period that the largeft quantity of furplus grain was exported; the increafe of wealth and Tuxury has alfo been very great, and if we allow that the number of horfes kept for pleafure have increafed in the fame proportion, the additional numbers now employed may be eftimated thus.

* Vide Chalmers’ Eftimate of Great Britain.+: Ibid,