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firft mifcarriage, through fire, or miftakcn experiment, is ruin" and bank- 

 ruptcy. 



Sect. 4. 



Of removing Manufadures from the Capital. 



I cannot prefcribe any thing more efficacious, or immediate, for the 

 intereft of the manufafturer, than his removal from the diffipation and 

 vices of a large city, which, joined to the impure air, relax and debili- 

 tate his frame, while they corrupt his mind. In rural fituations, pro- 

 vifion is made, for a long life, an healthful progeny, and vigorous 

 old age. The manufafturer inhales a purer gale ; and counterafts the 

 fatal effefts, of a fedentary trade, by an intermixture of ruftic labours, 

 in his garden, or his farm ; at the fame time, the temptations to riot, 

 intemperance, and other kinds of mifconduft, to which raanufafturers, in 

 great cities, are but too prone, are fet at a diftance. 



I cannot, therefore, fubfcribe, to the opinion, that manufaftures may 

 be carried on, to more advantage, in large cities, and towns. Toung, 

 who defends this notion, fays that agriculture is a lofer, by the con- 

 trary praftice ; and dwells particularly, on the low ftate of agriculture, 

 in the manufafturing counties, in the north of Ireland, where, as he 

 afferts, the land is worfe cultivated, than in any other part of the 

 kingdom. He adds, that, the cafe is the fame, in the manufafturing 

 diftrifts of France, where the fame perfons attempt to unite, the cha- 

 rafters of farmer and manufa<fturer ; fo incompatible in his judgment. 



The confequence of a removal of the manufa<n-urer, into the country, 

 mufl neceffarily be a divifion of large farms. Into fmall ones ; this, 

 aifo, Is ftrongly reprobated, by Toung, but here, as on fome other 

 occafions, he will be found, to difagree with hlmfelf. It is admitted. 



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