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Their cattle are feeding on the mountain in 

 the day, but of nights they houfe them in little 

 miferable ftables. All their children are em- 

 ployed regularly in their hufbandry, picking 

 ilones, weeding, &c. which fhows their induf- 

 try flronglyj for in general they are idle about 

 all the country. The women fpin. 



Too much cannot be faid in praife of this 

 undertaking. It fhows that a reflecting pene- 

 trating landlord can fcarcely move without the 

 power of creating opportunities to do himfelf 

 and his country fervice. It mows that the vil- 

 kiny of the greateft mifcreants, is all fituation 

 and circumftance: EMPLOY, don't bang them. 

 Let it not be in theilavery of the cottar fyftem, 

 in which induJftry never meets its reward, but 

 by giving property, teach the value of it -, by 

 giving them the fruit of their labour, teach 

 them to be laborious. All this Sir William 

 Ofborne has done, and done it with effec"l, and 

 there probably is not an honefter fet of families 

 in the county than thofe which he has formed 

 from the refufe of the white boys. 



Suppofe he builds a houfe to every twenty 

 acres, and limes that quantity of land, the ex- 

 penfe would be a few Shillings over 40!. or 405. 

 an acre. If they pay him 2s. 4d. an acre for 

 the land, he will make j aft 61. per cent, for his 

 money : a mpft finking proof of the immenfe 

 profit which attends mountain improvements 

 of every kind, becaufe inftead of as. 4d. they 

 would confider 6s. or 73. as a rent of favour'. 



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