SECT. VIII.] RESULTS OF THE INQUIRY. 255 



REMARKS. 



The propositions of the Commissioners to destroy 

 all the unhealthy cabins, which produce epidemics, 

 are undoubtedly excellent ; but the idea of dividing 

 those lots which have not hitherto been divided, 

 and giving a strip of ground to each of the mi- 

 serable tenants, would in less than five years 

 double the misery of the country by the new en- 

 couragement to marriage which a tolerable dwell- 

 ing and a small plot of ground would hold out. If 

 Great Britain enjoys such advantages over Ire- 

 land, it is from her following a precisely opposite 

 system. 



