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little pafture land, and no cow commons, he can 
keep 10 cows to make dung with his ftraw; and the 
arable land being in general fo little adapted to 
turn to grafs, he is prevented from inclofing his 
allotment, and laying it down to pafture. 
It may be anfwered, that the peculiar locality 
of great part of this diftrict is fuch, that it was not 
calculated for the feparate occupation of farms of 
twenty pounds a year; and that, though the owner 
of fuch a one cannot live upon it, when put in a 
ftate of feveralty, and is really injured, provided 
he occupies it himfelf, yet he may Jet it for one- 
third more than he could when it was ina ftate of 
tenantry. 
I allow this argument in its full force; and if it 
were 70w required to colonize a parifh in South- 
Wilts, it would not be prudent to make the divifion 
of farms fo low as twenty, or even forty pounds per 
annum. But men of this defcription are already 
bere; they are fettled on the fpot; it is in many 
inftances their own.  Juftice will not let them be 
difpoffeffed czshout their confent. Policy and hu- 
manity forbid they fhould be injured, even with 
. their confent. 
Thefe difficulties are all obviated in thofe where 
there are veins of fand land. There the /ittle far- 
mer has really the advantage of the great one; pro- 
vided the allotment of the former is placed, as it 
ought to be, in that kind of land, and this fhould 
be 
