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cafe, the farmers are enabled to charge the 

 price of labour as loiv as they pleafe, and rate 

 the land as high as they like. This is an evil 

 which opprefles them cruelly, and certainly has 

 its origin in its landlords, when they fet their 

 farms, fetting all thecabbins with them inftead 

 of keeping them tenants to themfelves. The 

 oppreilion is, the farmer valuing the labour of 

 the poor at 4d. or 5d. a day, and paying that 

 in land rated much above its value. Owing to 

 this, the poor are deprefled ; they live upon 

 potatoes and four milk, and the pooreft of them 

 only fait and water to them, with now and 

 then a herring. Their milk is bought ; for 

 very few keep cows, fcarce any pigs, but a few 

 poultry. Their circomftances are incompara- 

 bly worfe than they were 20 years ago ; for 

 they had all cows, but then tfyey wore no 

 linen : all now have a little flax. To thde 

 evils have been owing emigrations, which have 

 been confiderable, 



October ift, rode over the mountain im- 

 provements which William Blennerhaflet, Efq; 

 of Elm Grove, has made. I viewed it with 

 very great attention; for it projects far into a 

 mountain of heath, that lets only at is. an 

 acre. I faw the progrefs of the improvement 

 in different itages. He has done 250 Irifh 

 acres, and inclofed 300 more, and has been of- 

 fered 2os. an acre for them, but the farm- 

 houfes were not built; at prefent he has four, 

 to which he purpofes to throw the whole. 



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