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CHAPTER IV. 



MODE OF OCCUPATION. 



SECTION I. 

 Size of Farms. 



THE farms of this county naturally divide theni- 

 felves into two kinds j the firft, fuch as farmers pof- 

 fefs, and from which, without having recourfe to any 

 other branch of induflry, they fupport their families ; 

 the fecond, fuch as are held by weavers and other 

 tradefmen, and are not fufficient for their maintenance, 

 without the intervention of fome other occupation, un- 

 connected with agriculture : the former run from 

 twenty to forty, fifty, and, in fome inftances, fo far as 

 an hundred acres; the latter contain every diftinftion,. 

 fronl one to twenty acres ; fome of this laft mentioned 

 clafs may not be weavers themfelves, but moft of them 

 employ looms. 



The minute divifion of lands, which fo much pre- 

 vails in this county, is owing to various caufes ; many 

 farms have been brought to this fituation, by the 



holders 



