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to the state of poverty to which Ireland is brought. 

 Any legislator, magistrate, or writer, who should 

 at the present day in America speak of regulations 

 for territorial property, to make it furnish subsist- 

 ence for the community, would appear absurd, 

 and equally so indeed in some parts of Europe, 

 where large tracts of forests have been left stand- 

 ing. Deer and wild-boars are there found in 

 such abundance, that they constitute an essential 

 part of the food consumed in the neighbouring 

 towns. 



The inquiries relative to England will unfold 

 to the reader the system by means of which the 

 inclosure and cultivation of land have continued 

 the same abundance of food to the population of 

 this country, although it is increased tenfold, as 

 well as in Ireland, and although nearly the whole 

 of the Irish labour for their support. Individual 

 labour has succeeded in clearing the dry lands or 

 the mountainous parts, but the bog-lands require 

 collective labour, which the scattered agriculturists 

 are unable to undertake. 



