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js that of providing proper habitations for them. 
Humanity fhudders at the idea of an induftrious 
labourer, with a wife, and perhaps five or fix chil- 
dren, being obliged to live, or rather to exift, in a 
wretched, damp, gloomy room, of ten or twelve 
feet fquare, and that room without a floor; but 
common decency muft revolt at confidering, that 
over this wretched apartment there is only owe 
chamber, to hold all the miferable beds of this 
miferable family. And yet inftances of this kind 
(to our fhame be it fpoken) occur in every country 
village. How can we expect our labourers or their 
families to be healthy, or that their daughters, from 
whom we are to take our future female domefticks, 
fhould be cleanly, modeft, or even decent, in fuch 
wretched habitations?-—To remedy this ferious 
grievance, the following plans of cottages for the 
habitation of the labouring poor in the country, are 
fubmitted to the fociety. 
Plans of cottages may be drawn, and calculations 
made to build them, at a lefs expence than thefe 
herewith fent to the fociety; but the writer of this 
pledges himfelf, from the refult of long experience, 
‘that nothing lefs than fifty pounds for a fingle cot- 
tage, or ninety pounds for two dwellings under one 
roof, (even in the Weftern counties, where materials 
and workmanfhip are cheaper than in many other 
parts of England) are fuflicient to build cottages 
that 
