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bound to fulfil fuch petty engagements, muft always 

 attend at feafons when their own works are moft 

 preffing. 



The fituations of many mills are alfo great obstacles 

 to improvement. 



There is another circumftance, much complained of 

 by farmers in general. They have a notion, that bog 

 and mountain, newly reclaimed, muft become fubject 

 to tithe, fo fbon as they are brought into a ftate of cul- 

 tivation. I underfland, that fome fecurity is fettled by 

 law for new improvements ; of this, however, the 

 people are in general ignorant. 



SECT. 13. Habits of indij/try t or want of indujlry 

 among the people. 



IT is rare to find more induftrious people, than thofe 

 of this county generally are. The want of induflry 

 proceeds more from not having the means of being in- 

 duftrious, than from the inclination of the people to- 

 wards idlenefs. In trafts, capable of producing corn, 

 potatoes, and flax, we find few Specimens of floth of 

 inactivity ; both men and women are ufefully employed 

 At night, in the winter time, it is very common for a 

 labourer to make 6d. or SJ. by weaving, after his day's 

 labour. Girls, of nine or ten years of age, generally 



make from is. to it.-6d. a week by fpinning. 



It 



