In this mode of proceeding the farming would be entirely subservient to the improvement, and the capital would be constantly moving to fresh land. I showed that a small sum of money, thus employed, would gradually improve a great and increasing breadth of waste; whereas, if the same money was employed in the common manner of farming and occupying a larger farm, the space improved, after fifteen or twenty years, would be trifling, and the profit very inferior. My explanation of this system carries conviction with it; but the work appearing at a period when the rapidity of my publications satiated the world, little or no attention was paid to it. 1774.—I, this year, published on my own account my political arithmetic, one of my best works, which was immediately translated into many languages, and highly commended in many parts of Europe. Judges of the subject here, as well as abroad, have considered it as abounding in valuable information and the justest views; but, unfortunately, as in the case of my work on waste lands, it followed so many other of my publications that little attention was paid to it, except by the _few_ who saw the importance of the subject, or who were able to judge of the merit of the work. The winter was passed in London in the same employment as the preceding; but I had become known to so many men of science that several hinted to me the propriety of my being a candidate for election as a Fellow of the Royal Society, and my recommendation as such being garnished with some respectable names I was accordingly elected, which adds the F.R.S. to my name. Once in conversation with Dr. Burney on these elections, he said, ‘No matter, for that we have got our _ends_ of them.’ This year I was elected an honorary member of the Palatine Society of Agriculture established at Mannheim, also of the Geographical Society of Florence. 1775.—This winter I spent in London. From 1766 to 1775 being ten years, I received 3,000_l._, or 300_l._ a year. ----- Footnote 38: ‘We were married more than two years.’ [Note by A. Y.] Footnote 39: ‘The Mashamshire Molly,’ afterwards Countess of Harcourt. Footnote 40: It must be remembered that turnips were a comparative novelty at this date, not being cultivated as food for cattle till the latter part of the last century. Footnote 41: Nicolo Piccini, 1728-1800, composer of the opera _Zénobie_, &c. Footnote 42: Samuel Whitbread, son of a great brewer, distinguished in Parliamentary life as a vigorous assailant of Pitt; committed suicide 1815. Footnote 43: Entry in memorandum-book of this year: ‘The year’s receipts, 1,167_l._’ Footnote 44: _Sic_ in author’s MS.; ‘translated’ would seem to be the word. Footnote 45: In a memorandum-book occurs the following entry: ‘1771.—Receipts, 697_l._; expenses, 360_l._—I know not how.’ Footnote 46: Estimated population of England and Wales in 1770, 7,428,000.—_Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates._ Footnote 47: