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Multiplying the number of villages in e- 

 very part of the country would tend to in- 

 creafe manufactures, and would anfwer a 

 better purpole than eredling new colonies a- 

 broad. 



How many proprietors have ten times 

 more land than they can improve ; which 

 not only is a hurt to themfelves, but the na- 

 tion in general. A fmall eftate or farm well 

 improved, is far better, and more profitable, 

 than a large extent of ground, when the cul- 

 tivation is neglected. 



The following quotation from the HuC- 

 bandry of the Antients, page 193, tends to 

 illuftrate this. 



Pliny fays, The antients were of opinion, 



that above all things, the large extent of 

 1 farms ought to be kept within proper 

 ; bounds. Wherefore, it was a maxim a- 

 " mong them, to fow lefs, and plow bet- 

 " ten" 



" Columella fays, in fpeaking of farms, To 



1 the other precepts we add this, which one 



" of the feven wife men has pronounced as a 



" maxim that holds true in all ages, That 



" there ought to be limits, and mealures of 



1 things ; and this ought to be underflow! 



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