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only propofed to be ten fliillings an acre 

 for muir ground. 



Although the proprietor was to take the 

 " feuers bound to improve their land, it 

 " would be difficult to make a number of 

 " them to follow one plan ; and if any failed 

 in their fchemes, it would be difcouraging 

 others to fettle there. But when the ground 

 was improved to their hand, there would 

 be little difficulty to get them to follow one 

 plan for the firft ten years ; and when they 

 faw that that plan turned out to their in- 

 tereft, they would perfevere in it ; and af- 

 ter that they might be left to do as they 

 thought proper. 



To {how fully how I propofe to ereft 

 new villages or farms, I have reprefented 

 in page 393, the plan of a village, or four 

 connected together. You may fuppof e the 

 fquare to be what you pleafe : If you fup- 

 " pofe that each houfe is to have two acres 

 " and a half, then the firft village will be on- 

 u ly forty acres, which is divided into fix- 

 <c teen parts, as is marked upon the plan ; 

 " the other three villages of the fame fize, 

 " which in whole make one hundred and 

 " fixty acres, 



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