compence the farmer for the care and hazards of mat y, though perhaps not for his loſſes; and ſurely a country like this is worth preſerving, and preſents itſelf to an enlightened public as the fitteſt object for national confideration— larger in extent than ſeveral whole counties of Great Britain— productive of wheat and oats to a degree of which none but a fen man can have any conception— healthy for cattle of every ſpecies when properly drained— ſtanding in need of no manure whatever but what may be produced from the ſoil—with advantages peculiar to itſelf as to faci- lity of cultivation—poſſeſſing internal rivers, which commu- nicate with the navigations of the Nene, the Ouze, the Grant, and variqus others, by means whereof its produce may be conveyed to any part of the kingdom. Let all who delight in agricultural Kerlühte lay a finger upon that part of the plan of the ifland where this ſpot is deſcribed— and ſay— here is a country loſt to its proprietors and the community at large, though at no grsat diſtance from the ſeat of empire—one third part abſolutely yielding nothing; and the remainder, though productive in a certain overwhelmed with unneceſſary expences, which have ſwal- lowed up more than the fee-ſimple. Is the preſervation of timber an object worth attending to? Here is a country ſtruggling for a feeble exiſtence, ſupported in a ſtate of con- ſtant hazard by nothing but mechanical rrn⸗ which require an immenſe confumption of the beſt timber the iſland produces; inſtead of which, many hundreds, nay, thouſands of acres, might be applied to the growth of tim- ber of various ſpecies—better it had never been known, or had been ſuffered to remain in that condition in which it was ſound at the general undertaking— Shall a country like

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this remain a ſacrifice for ever to miſtaken prejudice? For-

bid it public ſpirit—vain muſt be all attempts at agriculture, where the ſoil Vririt is lia

tain, to be loſt.— But we will ſuppoſe it drained, and the 2 b„

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1„ remarks and addi

obſervations.

tlona!