Produ 61  of  the  thirteenth,         -         -  1291

1415

Expences  of  the  fourteenth,        -  -       1182

Balance,  -         -         -         233

Produfl  of  the  fourteenth,         -        -.        141 1

1644
Expences  of  the  fifteenth,  -       -       1264

Balance,         -         -  -         380

Produd  of  the  fifteenth,         -         -      -      1631


2011


And  fo  on.  But  I  fhall  flop  here,  as
the  improver  certainly  fhould  not,  longer
delay  an  increafe  of  his  annual  improve-
ment. He  has  here  gained,  cafli  in  hand,
20 11/.  ready  to  profecute  his  undertaking,
befides  all  the  ftock  of  his  farm,  and  the
fee  fimple  of  300  acres  of  admirably  im-
proved land,  that  would  let  for  300/.  a
year:  worth  at  thirty  years  purchafc  9000/.
which,  with  the  above  2000,  and  his  flock,
is  little  fl:iort  of  12, ceo/,  and  all  from  the
original  fum  of  1781/.  It  is  certainly  the
moil  advantageous  method  in  the  world  of
expending  fuch  a  fum  of  money,  and  is  a

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frefli  proof  that  no  man  can  difpofe  of
his  money  to  greater  profit  than  by  im-
proving moors.
Upon  the  whole,  it  appears  that  the
undertaking  improvements  of  this  nature
is  a  work  that  requires  very  large  fums  of
money:  1700/.  I  hold  to  be  the  lov^efl
that  a  man  can  fafely  begin  with  5  as  lefs
than  twenty  acres  annual  improvement
will  be  very  unprofitable  in  requiring  an
equal  team,  and  in  many  refpecls  an
equal  expence  j  from  whence  we  may
determine  that  the  profit  which  thofe  reap
from  moor  improvements,  who  begin  with
lefs  fums  of  money,  though  perhaps  with
larger  quantities  of  land,  being  lefs  than  I
have  proved  in  thefe  calculations,  are  no
real  arguments  againfl  their  accuracy,  fince
they  blundered  in  the  effentials  of  the  un-
dertaking.
