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po doubt but that the produce of this ifland, great 

 as it already is, would be much increafed by the 

 additional crops that would be raifed on thefe barren 

 fpots, which would be an advantage to the commu- 

 nity in proportion to the additional flock of produc- 

 tions. There would be another very confiderable 

 advantage to the publick in the faving of labour, in 

 harvefl:, by the corn being carried into the occupier's 

 barns, in much lefs time than it is carried to the par- 

 fonage ; the latter being frequently at a great diflance 

 from fome part of the parifli, much time is fpent in 

 getting the corn home. The value of the difference 

 of the labour, between carrying the tithe corn into 

 the parfonage, and the farmer's barn, is jufl fo much 

 lofs to the publick, and if rightly calculated for the 

 whole kingdom, would amount to an immenfe fum.* 

 IBID. p. 29. 

 Among the difadvantages to the publick in the 

 collection of tithe in kind, the quarrels among neigh- 

 bours, who perhaps would otherwife be very good 

 friends, is a very material one; and more particularly 

 where the tithe-gatherer happens to be the clergy- 

 man, (who, of all men, ought to be on the befl terms 



• The author is a tithe gatherer to a confiderable amount, and of 

 courfc interefted in the coUeiflion of tithe; but feeing, as he does, the 

 many obflrucHions to all agricultural improvements, together with 

 many other inconveniences, and lolTcs to the publick, by means of 

 rithes; and being called upon for his opinion, be feels it his duty to 

 give Lit fcntimtuts. 



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