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that fpace of ground. I think, added he y 

 an acre is much too fmall ; three or four 

 acres will maintain a cow or two on the offal, 

 a part of the year, by which means the 

 vines will get fome dung : I think, for this 

 feafon, there fhould be no vineyard fo fmall, 

 that at leaft one cow cannot be kept from 

 It 5 this marks a fize beyond the fmallnefs 

 which brings on poverty, and the cow will 

 be of ufe in fupporting the family, tlpon 

 my expreffing my furprife, that fathers who 

 had a few acres to give their children, did 

 not fee the juftice of this* he faid it would 

 Aever be done; for every body in the country 

 were fo pleafed with being matter of a vine- 

 yard, that they did not care how fmall it 

 was. Btrt, at the fame time, faid I, that 

 thefe inconveniences flow from it, there ap- 

 pears to rne a capital advantage. What is 

 that ? replied he : why, your whole fyftern 

 of cultivation demands a prodigious number 

 of people, and this minute divifion of land 

 breeds them in abundance. That is very 

 true,- returned h$$ but I allure, you we are 

 too populous for many feafons; fo that we 

 have numbers fometimes out of all employ- 

 ment, who, if they did not leave the coun- 

 try, 



