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advantage of the division of labour. Being 
supplied in this way with power to a very 
limited extent, they found that children could 
perform some of the more delicate parts of 
their operations. These were the children of 
indigent people (already employed in a simi- 
lar way), who had removed from different 
parts of the kingdom, often at the expence 
of their respective parishes, which were thus 
relieved from the charge of supporting them. 
In the progress of these changes it was ob- 
served that much advantage was derived from 
the people associating together. Improve- 
ments in mechanism, and the means of 
putting these improvements into use, increas- 
ed in proportion to the size of the village and 
its population. 
The people, being placed in a new situation, 
having food better in quality and in greater 
abundance, and the means of increasing al- 
most all their other comforts, began to feel 
their independence, acquired new wants, and 
endeavoured to gratify those wants, each ac- 
cording to his taste. 
A desire for better dwellings, as well asa 
demand fora greater number of them, became 
general; and the land-owners found their ad- 
vantage in supplying portions of.Jand for 
building upon, at moderate chief rents. 
