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The true interest of Great Britain, Ireland and our plantations, or A proposal for making such an union between Great Britain and Ireland and all our plantations as that already made betwixt Scotland and England : whereby the attempts and endeavours of foreign powers and domestick factions towards dividing, disuniting, weakening and dismembering us may be prevented : and a new method of husbandry by greater and lesser canals, whereby the present value and product of our lands and waters may in five or six years be at an avarage [!] at least quadrupled, the publick debts may be paid off and such of our taxes as are most burthensome and hurtful to our trade and industry removed : and all this at an expence of money and labour at the utmost extent within Britain not exceeding three or four years of the ordinary expence of money and labour now, at an avarage [!] annual bestowed upon our lands and waters : with proposals for removing the hurtful parts of the.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, Alexander, Sir, -1743.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Great Britain.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects.
- Irrigation.
- Great Britain.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Scotland.
- Irrigation--Great Britain.
- Land tenure--Scotland.
- Land tenure.
- Scotland.
- Great Britain--Economic policy.
- Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 8, 52 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 double, 11 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 37 cm (folio)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for the author, 1740 [that is, 1741]
- Notes:
- Signatures: [pi]2, a2, A-B2, B-D2, [chi]14.
- "An apology to the reader, January the first, 1740-1": 8 p. at front.
- "Paper I[-VI]: A letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole" (p. 1-13) first published in 1732 under the title: An abstract of an essay on the improvement of husbandry and working of mines.
- Issued with: A letter and remonstrance, &c. / Sir Alexander Murray. London : Printed for the author, 1740.
- Errata: p. 8 (1st count), p. 52.
- Advertisements: p. 52.
- Cited in:
- Hanson 5508; Kress 4515.
- OCLC:
- 249077119
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