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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 heretable courts and jurisdictions and of the present holdings and tenures of lands in Scotland and other such obstructions to all good law, power, government, union, industry and improvements whatsoever

Author

Murray, Alexander, Sir, d. 1743

Published

London : Printed for the author, 1740 [i.e. 1741]

Location

BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> 1990 +119

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