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among those classes the most devoted friends to public order, and 

 the most stanch supporters of her social institutions. I trust I 

 shall not be thought to speak with an undue enthusiasm in 

 saying, that the time has now come when there should be recog 

 nized in every human form a moral and an immortal mind ; that 

 the ore in this quarry should be brought out and polished ; and 

 that the higher conditions of life will be themselves elevated, and 

 the whole community advantaged, by all improvement of the 

 lower classes. The subsoil plough is deemed the great discovery 

 of modern agriculture ; and by bringing the lower strata up, and 

 mingling them with the surface soil, and exposing them to the 

 same genial influences of sunshine and air, it will not be denied 

 that the whole, without injury to any, has been rendered the 

 more productive. 



The experiments of the public-spirited proprietor of these allot 

 ments have been perfectly successful in a pecuniary view. I 

 have seen the accounts. The rents have been paid with punc 

 tuality. There has been no distress levied, and, among upwards 

 of four hundred tenants, scarcely an instance of failure to pay. 

 The rents demanded have been fully equal to those received for 

 lands in the vicinity, of the same quality, held in large farms ; in 

 deed, they have exceeded them. At starting, she has found it 

 necessary to assist her poor tenants in the purchase of tools and 

 stock ; but these obligations are required to be liquidated. 



The allotments are held in the following amounts : 



In 4 rod pieces, 3 ; in 13 rod pieces, 1 ; in J acre, 13 ; 



6 &quot; &quot; 5; &quot; 16 &quot; &quot; 1; &quot; 3 &quot; 2; 



7 &quot; &quot; 5; &quot; 20 &quot; &quot; 75; &quot; 1 &quot; 22; 



&quot; 8 &quot; &quot; 75; &quot;24 &quot; &quot;2; &quot; 2 acres, 9 ; 



9 &quot; 8; &quot; 30 &quot; &quot;5; &quot;4 &quot; 2; 



&quot;10 &quot; &quot; 6; &quot; 40 &quot; &quot; 108; &quot;5 &quot; 5; 



&quot; 12 &quot; &quot; 71; &quot; 60 &quot; &quot; 2: &quot;9 &quot; 1. 



Total, 421 allotments. Amount of rent received, -428 8s. 5jd. 

 This is without houses or barns, the rent of which is a separate 

 charge. 



Of the occupants, the following are stated to be the number in 

 the families supported from the land, with the exception of the 

 small income from the instruction money. 



