# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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any general plan of his for its improvement into
execution it is absolutely necessary that he render
himself popular with the Common People & with
the Clergy a few acts of condescenction & generality
to the former will effect the purpose and as the
latter depend on him their own interest will
lead them to support his. It is of no avail that
what he proposes is for the peoples good- they
must be ~~led~~ by affection Not having Sense en=
=ough to admit innovations in their Wretched System
altho evidently for their own advantage, One
instance of this - Two farmers from Britain were
Some years ago Sent over to Settle & introduce a better
method of agriculture in the inland parts. Their
ffences made thro the day were allways pulled
down at night, their Cattle were abstracted & killed
they knew not by whom & their Situation was soon
rendered such that they left the Country.

The Country is at present impenetrable either
for the means or implements of improvement
without its being by Roads nothing can be done.
The ffund for this purpose is mentioned in a paper
a part.

The propriety of putting the Proprietors
Estate under new Management is also men=
=tioned in a paper apart.

If Roads are made thro the Country,
Inns, & Posts ought to be established to protect
ffarmes from the Violence of the Natives. The
Suppression & discovery of Smuggling renders it
an Object to Goverm^t to have the Country opend
& those Posts or Barracks in different parts
occupied by ten or a dozen Soldiers each, who
would make the Roads & protect the ffarmes
- And the Survey of the Island mentioned in a
a paper a part. Ought for the same reason
to be made at Goverm^t. Expence

The £300 levied for making Roads
would be a ffund upon which to borrow
£3000 which would do a great deal to make [obscured]