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villages as the author apprehends would ful- 

 ly anfwer the above purpofes. 



Having faid fo much about the con- 

 ftrudting of new villages, in pages 250 and 

 339, it is needlefs to be repeating what is 

 " there faid : But as it is of fo much confe- 

 c quence that a village mould be properly 

 " planned out at the beginning, the fuccefs 

 " depending greatly upon it, I mall here fub- 

 : join a method how, in my view, it might 

 ' be planned, and to advantage ; it being as 

 " eafy a matter to follow a good plan as a 

 " bad one. 



" The regularity and neatnefs of a village, 

 (each feuer having his houfe and inclofure 

 whether great or fmall, diftindl by itfelf,) 

 would be the means of drawing a confider- 

 able number of feuers, of different kinds 

 of manufacturers, to fettle there, and 

 more efpecially if the ground was impro- 

 ved, and all thrown into grafs by the pro- 

 u prietor before entry, as propofed in page 



" 34- 



" If once a proper plan was fixed upon, the 



" moft effectual method of carrying it into 

 execution, would be for the proprietor to 

 trench it all himfelf, and lime and throw 



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