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19 DIRECTIONS

How to turn a Penny to advantage.

first direction shall be that all such persons design to thrive in the world, should always  care not to spend a penny idly; for that they  may purchase a square yard (or 3 feet)  good land. This, how improbable soever it seem, is an undoubted truth, as will appear  the following demonstration.

1. Sixteen feet and a half, make one rood.

2. Forty such roods in length (that is 600 feet) four such roods in breadth, (that is 66 feet) takes an acre of land.

3. Now, multiply 660 feet, (the length of an ) by 66 feet, (the breadth of an acre) and the will be 43,560 square feet, and so many  acre cotainscontains [sic].

4. Land that will let at 20s an acre, per annum, m acre of which. if sold as 20 years purchase, may be bought for 20l, that is for 4800 pence.

5. Now, if you divide 43,560, (the number of for which an acre may be purchased,) the quotions or product thereof is 9, and 360 : which shews that every penny does purchase nine square feet (that is, three feet long, and three broad) of such land. and somewhat above, which what was to be demonstrated; and consequently it follows, taatthat [sic] for every two shillings. you may purchase 216 square feet: that is a piece of ground of 18 feet long, and 12 feet broad, which is enough to build a little house upon. or make a little garden, which being well planted, the fruit