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plantation in person; from which I must dissent, if 

 I will consent with the grounds I have already taken. 

 For it is not probable that men of great means and 

 plentiful estate will endure the travel, diseasements, 

 and adventures of going thither in person : but 

 rather, I suppose, many will undertake portions as 

 an advancement for their younger children or kins 

 folks ; or for the sweetness of the expectation of a 

 great bargain in the end, when it is overcome. And 

 therefore, it is like they will employ sons, kinsfolks, 

 servants, or tenants, and yet be glad to have the 

 estate in themselves. And it may be, some again 

 will join their purses together, and make as it were 

 a partnership or joint-adventure ; and yet man forth 

 some one person by consent, for the executing of the 

 plantation. 



Thirdly, There is a main point, wherein I fear 

 the project made hath too much of the line and 

 compass, and will not be so natural and easy to exe 

 cute, nor yet so politic and convenient : and that is, 

 that the buildings should be &quot; sparsim&quot; upon every 

 portion ; and the castle or principal house should 

 draw the tenements and farms about it as it were 

 into villages, hamlets, or endships ; and that there 

 should be only four corporate towns for the artificers 

 and tradesmen. 



My opinion is, that the buildings be altogether 

 in towns, to be compounded as well of husbandries 

 as of arts. My reasons are, 



First, When men come into a country vast, and 

 void of all things necessary for the use of man s life, 



