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pinefs in the country, and giving fcope for national 

 recovery, than all other poiTible fchemes of policy. 

 And their adoption is the more defirable, becaufe 

 obvious in their nature, and eafy of accomplifhment. 



17. Not comfortably. 



18. Ale-houfes have been generally leffened in 

 number every where, within thirty years — more re- 

 markably fo within half that period — perhaps in the 

 proportion of one-third or one-fourth — in fome 

 places, half have been fuppreffed. — Effe£ls of courfe 

 favourable; but for fuch diminution, and the in- 

 creafe of potatoes, matters muft have been abund- 

 antly worfe. 



19. On the whole, there feems to have been an 

 improvement of morals, confequent on an increafe 

 of religious inftruftion, by diffenting and methodifl 

 minifters. And though profligacy abounds in many, 

 a confpicuous reformation, and an increafing refort 

 to places of publick worlhip, are encouraging fea- 

 tures of thefe times. 



20. The general introduftion of Sunday Schools 

 . has evidently and ufefully increafed the number and 



proportion of injiruded children in thefe parts: 

 perhaps twice as many are taught to read as received 

 fuch inflrui^ion ten or fifteen years back: In fome 

 places the proportion is much greater. 



•21. The demand at market, as has been obferved 

 before, will always furnifh fufficient encouragement ; 



give 



