An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . CHAPTER I. That a small conntvy and few people, by its Situation, Trade,and Policy, may be equivalent in wealth and strength to a fargreater people and territory. A nd, particularly, that conveniencesfor shipping and water carriage, do most eminently and funda-mentally conduce thereunto. His first principal Conclusion, by reasonof its length, I consider in three parts:whereof the first is That a small country and few people maybe equivalent in wealth and strength to a fargreater people and territory. This part of the First princ
An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . CHAPTER I. That a small conntvy and few people, by its Situation, Trade,and Policy, may be equivalent in wealth and strength to a fargreater people and territory. A nd, particularly, that conveniencesfor shipping and water carriage, do most eminently and funda-mentally conduce thereunto. His first principal Conclusion, by reasonof its length, I consider in three parts:whereof the first is That a small country and few people maybe equivalent in wealth and strength to a fargreater people and territory. This part of the First principal Conclu-sion needs little proof: foras- How one Man 1 u by Art, and one much as one acre of land may bear as mucn coin Acre of land byand feed, as many cattle, as twenty; by the dif- ;^,7b:a-ference of the soil. Some parcel of ground is, lent to , so defensible, as that an hundred men bemg pos-sessed thereof, can resist the invasion of five hundred. Andbad land may be improved and made good. Bog may, bydraining, be made meadow. Heathland may,
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