W. Petty
, when he fancied if all the Highlands of
Scotland
and the whole Kingdom of
Ireland
were sunk in the Ocean, so that the People were all saved and brought into the Lowlands of
Great Britain
; nay, though they were to be reimburst the Value of their Estates by the Body of the People, yet both the Sovereign and the Subjects in general would be enriched by the very Loss
.