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fo is their fituation ameliorated. Great attention has 

 been paid by many of the gentlemen, to have comfor- 

 table, and often elegant cottages built for their la- 

 bourers. This is an attention not only hnmane, but 

 politic; for the more comfortable their fituation, the 

 lefs willing they muft be to leave it, and, confequently, 

 the more fedulous not to commit any of thofe faults 

 likely to bring on their difmiffal. 



SECT. 3. Cottages. 



ON the fubjeft of cottagers much has been faid, and 

 many humane perfons have turned their thoughts to- 

 wards ameliorating their fituation, which certainly in 

 every country might admit of improvement j in this 

 county, moft of thofe who come into this defcription, 

 are tradefmen, principally weavers, and labourers, the 

 latter dependant on their employers ; the former free 

 to choofe their place of abode j labourers, of courfe, 

 are bound to their matters, and whilft they remain 

 with them, their comforts muft depend partly on the 



character of their mafter, partly on their bargain with 







him, but moft. of all upon their own conduct. Perfons 

 of this defcription muft be, in a great degree, attached 

 to the foil ; but fo much of the farmer's comfort like- 

 wife depends on his fervant's fidelity, and propriety of 

 behaviour in the different functions he has to fulfil, 



and 



