with fuccefs, I fhall increase the buffes; and when the cana: I fhew ed you is finished, I thall build fome larger floops, and a brig or two of an hundred tons, for carrying the product of the fishery up the ftreights; from whence I hope to return home loaded with falt, which, by that time, I shall have fixed a market for.

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My great object is to make every part of my general plan unite to form one whole, by rendering each divifion of it the fupport of another at first, I was forced to fend out my floops, wherever they went, empty; but as my manufactures have increased, I have fent out fome loads of them, which have obtained a very good market; I have loaded others with corn, having a perpetual licence from the king for that purpofe; if my fithery proceeds, I thall never be obliged to go out empty, which is a very efTential object.

All these works I find have a wonderful efficacy in increafing the people on my eftate. I before told you, that the town has above two thousand inhabitants in it, though not a hut was standing there threeand-twenty years ago; my buildings increase confiderably every year; I have a great number of brick and lime burners, mafons, fmiths, and carpenters, that do nothing else but build houses for the new comers. This work regulates all the reft, for it is the irft I provide cafh for, being the great object of all the reft; and what fum is fpared from this, I expend upon the other works. I raifed five-and-thirty houfes laft year, and the number this year will be near forty. From the ap. plications I have received, I ap

prehend, I fhall next year build above fixty; but the expence will be fo large, that I fhall be forced to retard my other undertakings. You shall to-morrow fee the effect, which this population has had upon my husbandry.

We pafled the evening in converfation of this fort.-The count fhewed me a map of his eftate, as it was when his father left it him. The extent is nine English miles one way, and inore than four another; but fomewhat indented. It is a fine variegated country of hill and dale, with fome mountains, well watered with rivers, ftreams, and lakes; and part of it nobly fpread with exceeding fine timber. This was the defcription he gave me of it on explaining the map.

In the morning early, horfes were ready for us, and the count, riding fome miles from his cattle, came into a tract of cultivated country, all his own, at the extremity of his eftate, oppofite to the part on which the town is built. Here we rode through many valleys, and fides of hills, all cultivated, with great numbers of farmhoufes and cottages, the inhabitants of which feemed as easy, chearful, and happy, as if they had been refident in England inftead of Denmark; they all appeared to be pleased with the prefence of their lord, and I have no doubt but they esteem him as their father, as well as mafter. This part of my ettate, faid the count, addreffing himfelf to me, was cultivated of old, and it is all that was fo; I found it farmed by my father's bailiffs and villains, and the appearance it made was very uninviting, and the people extremely miferable; I arranged it R 3

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a-new, formed most of the inclofures you fee, built most of these houfes; and to all the people that were induftrious and faving, I let farms according to their ability of living and ftocking; and I found very foon that this way of managing the land, brought me in a better revenue than the cultivating it on my own account; for the bailiffs I trufted, generally turned out great rafcals, and cheated me, at the fame time that they infinitely oppreffed the peasants. In my travels through England, I had fixed the defign of letting farms, from the great fuccefs I faw attending it there; I liked the plan every day better and better, and by giving encouragement to fuch as tilled their land well, and kept their farms in good order, and by fhewing no favour to idle perfons and flovens, I brought them to be wonderfully attentive, fo that at prefent I do not think you have many eftates in Scotland or Ireland better cultivated than this part of mine, and fome not better in England. I fhould, however, tell you, that I did not leave them to the cuftoms of their own country entirely, but procured workmen and implements from Flanders, to inftruct them in the practice of methods, to which they were unaccustomed. This I did not find fo difficult a bufinefs as might be expected; for very luckily the people-I procured were fenfible and intelligent, and pointed out with great propriety the courfes of management moft proper for the lands: our foil they thought not good nough for the Flemish crops of

colefeed, madder, &c. but ought rather to be applied to the productions of wheat, barley, oats, peafe, beans, turnips, clover, &c. I was entirely of the fame opinion, and rewarded them for their advice, fending them home, after they had fully inftructed my Danes in the ufe of their implements; we have stuck very clofely to thefe ever fince, except the introduction of fome others from England, which have been likewife well approved by them. I have given premiums for the beft ploughmen; others, more confiderable, for the beft crops of all forts, and have been very attentive to spread among them the culture of turnips and clover, as the most advantageous means of wintering their herds of cattle.

The attention of this fort, which I have given to their management, has been attended with great ef fects, for though I have been all over Denmark' more than once, I know scarcely any spot fo well cul tivated as this; and you will rea dily allow, that I have found the work profitable, when I tell you that great tracks of this improved land, yield me a rent of a ducat and half for an English acre; and fome of it two ducats, (which is from fourteen to eighteen fhillings) but it has not been to high rented many years; it hath been fo only fince the increase of my town has been confiderable, which, by providing them the market they fo much wanted, has enriched them all, and is a strong proof of the juftnefs of the principles upon which I firft undertook all my works."

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