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brought with them large families. This feems to 

 prove the neceffity and propriety of taxing trade, 

 when it is flourifhing, to provide a fund for its 

 poor, when it declines. 



There is another obfervation which I have 

 made, which is, that the larger the common, the 

 greater number, and the more miferable are the 

 poor. 



In the parifhes of Horsford, Hevingham, and 

 Marfham, which link into each other, from four 

 to nine miles from Norwich, there are not lefs 

 than 3000 acres of wafte land, and yet the 

 average of the rates are, at leaft, ten millings in 

 the pound. — This fhews the abfolute neceffity of 

 doing fomething with thefe lands, or thefe, uncul- 

 tivated, will utterly ruin the cultivated parts ; for 

 thefe miftaken people place a fallacious depen- 

 dence upon thefe precarious commons, and do not 

 truft to the returns of regular labour, which would 

 ]be, by far, a better fupport to them. 



