NoWNE 2

PROPOSALS

For ENRICHING the

PRINCIPALITY of WALES:

Humbly fubmitted to the

Confideration of his Countrymen,

By GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS.

"Whoever can make twò Ears of Corn, or two Blades of Grass to

grow upon a Spot of Ground where only one grew before, will
deferve better of Mankind, and do more effential Service to his
Country than the whole Race of Politicians put together."
GULLIVER'S Travels.

Hoc opus, hoc ftudium Parvi properemus & Ampli,
Si Patriæ volumus, fi nobis vivere cari.

HOR

LONDON:

Printed for the AUTHOR; and fold by JoHN MILLAN, ODI

pofite the Admiralty, Whiteball, 1755-

(Price 15.)

312-

NOBILITY, GENTRY, CLERGY, and
YEOMANRY

OF THE

PRINCIPALITY

OF

W A LE S;

This ESSAY, calculated for the Im-
provement and Benefit of that PRINCIPA-
LITY by AGRICULTURE and COM-
MERCE, is humbly inscribed by

Their Well-Wifher and Servant,

London,

March, 1755.

C. B

[ie. M. P.]

At Confible & ridicions pamphl appare by public poorly of Wales apparently written with the mon be of enriching

agriculture & commerce, &

Embrace

Nattes, - readering that part of land! populous, &e; der Maß de to these not the reveries of a visiona risonary projector, but the prradicable schen of a shrewd & observing Patnot it is with pleasure we recomm the opportunity recommendin The Serious Prevafal & confideran on of this pamphlet, be Monthly Review for the Month of January 1763 refer to the forded Edition of This porformance printed at Gloucester,

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Turn to the Arts, the useful pleafing Arts
Of Cultivation; and thofe Fields improve
Your erring Fathers left too long defpis'd."
Leave not to Ignorance and low-bred Hinds,
That nobleft Science, which in antient Time
The Minds of Sages and of Kings employ'd,
Sollicitous to learn the Ways of God,
And read his Works in Agriculture's School.
PUBLIC VIRTUE, a Poem. By Mr. Dodsley.

T

HAT the Wealth of every Nation is proportionable to the * Number and Induftry of its Inhabitants, is a Truth that will. admit of no Difpute. Whatever therefore

* Sir William Temple, in his Obfervations upon the United Netherlands, has proved to a Degree of Demonftration, that the Ground of Trade cannot be deduced from Havens, or native Commodities, but from the Number, Industry and Parfimony of the Inhabitants. But if a Country, fuch as that of the United Netherlands, which has neither native Commodities, commodious Havens, a wholesome Air, nor good Water, has been raised to an incredible Pitch of Power and Greatnefs, by the Number and Diligence of its People, To what Heighth of Majesty and Grandeur might not the Inhabitants of Wales arrive, who can juftly boast of the finest Havens, and all the defirable Native Commodities, were they to exert the fame Degrees of Industry and Parfimony, that have rendered those once, difireffed States, rich, formidable and mighty?