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 that most impartial, just, and never before thought of way, of the Mile in length, and not by the thousand acres of superficial Content; I say when men saw, how by a little better contrivance and method, and a little more diligence and assiduity I was like to perform my undertaking, and to gain more for my work pro ratâ then the Vulgus of ignorant, immethodical, loytering, disunited, emulating and contentious Surveyors (especially the vastness of the work being considered) could ever do. Moreover when Mr. Worsly himself (who traded only in slights to become suddenly rich, as by the Universal Medicine, Making of Gold, Sowing of Salt-Peter, Universal Trade, Taking great Farms, &c.) saw a fair opportunity taken out of his hands, and that all his Mountain-bellied Conceptions ended only in abortive Mice, when also several Officers who had been always Favourites to the Governments, and had mighty friends to back them, saw there was a design of profit which themselves had missed; and when some of the Souldiers reflecting upon their long Services in the Army, hard Duties, their Wounds and Maims, Considered, they had