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if they set up together in a place, one of them will 

 the better supply the wants of another : work-folks 

 of all sorts will be the more continually on work 

 without loss of time ; when, if work fail in one place, 

 they may have it fast by ; the ways will be made 

 more passable for carriages to those seats or towns, 

 than they can be to a number of dispersed solitary 

 places ; and infinite other helps and easements, 

 scarcely to be comprehended in cogitation, will 

 ensue in vicinity and society of people ; whereas if 

 they build scattered, as is projected, every man must 

 have a cornucopia in himself for all things he must 

 use ; which cannot but breed much difficulty and 

 no less waste. 



Secondly, it will draw out of the inhabited 

 country of Ireland provisions and victuals^ and many 

 necessaries ; because they shall be sure of utterance : 

 whereas in the dispersed habitations, every man must 

 reckon only upon that that he brings with him, as 

 they do in provisions of ships. 



Thirdly, the charge of bawnes, as they call them, 

 to be made about every castle or house, may be 

 spared, when the habitations shall be congregated 

 only into towns. 



And lastly, it will be a means to secure the 

 country against future perils, in case of any revolt 

 and defection : for by a slight fortification of no 

 great charge, the danger of any attempts of kierns 

 and sword-men may be prevented ; the omission of 

 which point, in the last plantation of Munster, made 

 the work of years to be but the spoil of days. And 



