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deletion As the Earth produces every essential unclear to the sustenance and convenience of human life, the add greater perfection to which /add more agriculture is improved the greater agriculture can be brought the cheaper will the greater plenty will be afforded of land the more cheap will be the productions which will tend to an encrease every necessary of life be obtained, which ought of Cattle, from whence naturally allows inevitably lessen the price of labour, and by more employment of Lands in cultivation. render our manufactures lesser unclear and It is the improvement of unclear and a the unclear addition of cultivated Land by the improvements cultivation of wastelands be extended to the true political degree diminishing enable us to undersell other Countries, thus unclear the value of our exports beyond that of our imports and turn the general ballance of Trade is our favour /deletion
As the Earth produces every Essential requisite to the sustenance and convenience of human life, the greater perfection to which Agriculture can be brought, the cheaper will every necessary of life be obtained, which ought inevitably ^to lessen the price of labour and render our Manufactures more reasonable, by which we may undersell other Countries and have the ballance of trade in our Favour.
Political Arithmeticians agree that mankind continually encrease, Sir William Petty computes that they will double themselves in 360. years notwithstanding Wars, plagues & c. which if true, a quantity of ^add Waste /add Land equal to 1/360. part of the quantity at present in cultivation ought every year to be added to the tillage that the price of provisions may not encrease.
If England be 320 miles long and 290. wide, it will contain 92,800. Square miles if its figure was regular, but that not being so we may deduct 1/3. for this, the towns, and rivers, there remains 62,000. Square miles.
About one half that is 31,000. Square miles are cultivated the 1/360. part whereof is 86. Square miles that ought annually to be added to the cultivation.
Experience shews that the people diminish in proportion as the means of getting a livelyhood become difficult, and then the ballance of trade becomes considerably against that Nation.
