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CONCLUSION. 

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IN making this Report I have paid every attention, 

 to collect and give a faithful relation of the agriculture 

 of the county of Down, and of the other fubjefts 

 pointed out by the Dublin Society as connected with it, 

 and with the general profperity of the kingdom. I 

 have alfo pointed out what feemed the prinripal obfta- 

 cles to improvement ; but, as I have obferved before, 

 to point out defeats is a much eafier talk, than to find 

 out remedies for them; and our defefts in moft in- 

 ftances are fo clofety interwoven with other circum- 

 ftances, befides the mere want of a proper fyftem, that 

 I muft confefs my inability to prefcribe the means of 

 effectually removing them. For what can be done in 

 the cafe of fmall farmers, manufacturers, who are de- 

 ficient in capital, who occupy fo confiderable a portion 

 of the county, and whofe attention is divided between 

 their trade and their holdings, often to the detriment of 

 both? Nothing lefs than a change in the mode of occu- 

 pation can effeft a remedy in this cafe. To bring 

 about this change, an idea was many years ago thrown 

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