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briefly remark that the cabins of the labour- 

 ing classes require no farther notice in a work 

 of this kind, than their immediate condemnation, 

 and the erection of proper new ones, in accord- 

 ance with those which we propose for England. 

 We cannot estimate the number of new cot- 

 tages and gardens required for Ireland at less 

 than 1,000,000, which at 607. each will cost 

 60,000,0007. Some Irish landlords may probably 

 stare at such an expenditure, but never was 

 money better invested than would 60,000,0007 

 in the erection of comfortable cottages for the 

 Irish peasantry at present, as above recom- 

 mended. 



The minute subdivision of land, and the 

 erection of miserable cabins upon those divisions, 

 instead of being a blessing to small farmers, has 

 hitherto been experienced by them as a very 

 heavy clog upon their industry, and will be 

 experienced still more so before an effectual 

 reformation of the country takes place, more 

 especially in Ulster and other places, where 

 fines and other burdens have been imposed upon 

 them. Many of the small Ulster tenants we 

 found had borrowed money from a race of 

 money-jobbers, to purchase tenant-rights, or 

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