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and it is fo much his intereft to encourage a faithful 

 fervant, that, in the general courfe of circumftances, 

 no interference can be ventured on between perfons 

 fo mutually connected, without the rifk of mutual 

 injury. 



With refpeft to tradefmen, who compofe the moft 

 numerous portion of cottagers, their cafe is totally dif- 

 ferent ; being quite unconnected with agriculture, in- 

 terference, with regard to them, cannot in any way 

 injure its interefls, and might much promote it, by 

 providing them with habitations, c. which would 

 prevent them from grafping at fmall farms, as foon as 

 they can fave a little money by their exertions. In 

 villages where fuel is convenient, they might be better 

 accommodated with fuitable fettlements, and, without 

 interruption, purfue their different vocations to much 

 more effect; and proprietors might find their account, 

 when confiderable tracts of land are out of leafe, in 

 laying apart fome portion of it for this purpofe. A 

 convenient houfe, a garden, and, if thought necefTary, 

 grafs for a cow, would fecure to the landlord a profit, 

 more than adequate to the expenfe and trouble; and 



if .the village increafed, of which there is little doubt, 







it would afford a ready market to the neighbouring 

 farmers. A code of regulations might be drawn for 

 the general good, with which every new fettler fhould 

 be made acquainted, and fpeedy expulfion (hould be 

 the confequence of a breach of them, which might be 



eafily 



