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The plenty of Corn is the only means of keeping the price of Labour and of manufactures cheap, on which depends the competition in Trade and Navigation.

For which reasons every waste land must be cultivated and every improvement in agriculture encouraged that the land may produce as much as it is capable of

Political Arithmeticians agree that mankind do naturally encrease; Sir William Petty computes that in 360. Years England will naturally be doubled in inhabitants notwithstanding Wars, Plagues & c. therefore at least ^ add an addition of wastelands equal to /add the 360 part of the unclear ^ add Land now /add in cultivation ought every year to be deletion unclear to /deletion tillaged that, the price of ?provisions? may not encrease deletion prevent the encrease of the price of all provisions./deletion

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