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this has long been the complaint of the landholders, 
and yet the manufacturers have hitherto made them 
in fome degree a compenfation, by the employ that 
they have furnifhed in {pinning work to the wo- 
men and children of the labourers in agriculture. 
But unfortunately for the landholders, even this 
compenfation feems likely foon to be at an end, by 
the general introduction of machines, to fupply the 
place of manual labour, whereby all thofe parts of 
the manufactory, that have hitherto been done in 
the country villages, will be done at the immediate 
refidence ‘of the manufacturers. 
The confequence to the landholders will be, that 
the families of the labouring poor muft fall on the 
poor rates, or the price of labour muft be advanced, 
equal to the lofs of the former earnings of the poor. 
The confequences to the manuiacturers them- 
felves are not yet known. How far the general 
introduction of machines may affect this part of 
the kingdom, or the kingdom in general, by making 
thofe manufactories “ moveable” that have hitherto 
been “ fixtures,” time muft determine. 
OBSTACLES TO IMPROVEMENT. 
Tuere are two obftacles to improvements in 
agriculture, neceflary to be particularly noticed 
here; viz. 1ft. The frequency of {mall water-mills, 
as 
