XVI INTRODUCTION. 
numerous perfons, both of this fociety and among well- 
withers to the publick tranquillity in general, that gentlemen, 
who are primarily interelted in the queftion, will become 
more difpofed than they may have been, fo paufe upon the 
practice, rather than haftily extend it. 
The happy effect of more general inclofure is particularly 
looked to, and earneftly hoped for; and however new inclo- 
fure of untilled and neglected lands fhall happen, whether 
under the-provifions of a general bill, which hitherto has 
been folicited in vain, or progreffively by more moderated 
expences of particular bills, it feems the general with, 
founded on laudable patriotifm, that this grand objec? may be 
realized. Advocate, and warmly fuch, as the writer of this 
article is, in common with numerous well-wifhers to their 
country, for a greater proportion of {mall farms, he is con- 
vinced that more judgment is requifite than has often been 
fuppofed in the allotment of fuch farms; for if only the 
quantum of acres were to be attended to, fuch allotments, 
efpecially of arable, would be often injurious. If, for in- 
ftance, due regard be not paid to the nature of the /zi/, but 
a finall farm fhould be fixed in a very ftrong and tenacious 
one, the fmall farmer muft be under peculiar difadvantage : 
for in order to plough and harrow his ground, he muft keep 
ateam equal in ftrength to that of a much larger farmer—to 
that of a man who has double, perhaps treble, his number 
of acres; this would be an expence wholly difproportioned 
to the poffible profits of his farm; and fuppofing he paid no 
more rent per acre than a large farmer commonly does, 
would keep him in flavifh and painful penury, if he could 
even live. And if fuch a farm fhould be fituated, as many 
large ones are, at a great diftance from a good market-town, 
his difadvantage would be double, on account of the ex- 
pence of carrying his produce to market, efpecially fmall 
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