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generally made by well-meaning people j 

 and there is fomething very humane, and 

 fpecious in their conclufion. But on ex- 

 amination, it will appear, that cottagers 

 who live at the fides oicom}?ions, generally 

 negled the advantage they have before 

 them. There is not, perhaps, one out of 

 fix, upon an average, that keeps even a 

 cow; and, being generally tenants, and 

 feldom owners, they rent thefe miferable 

 habitations proportionably high, on ac- 

 count of their fituation. It is the owner, 

 therefore, and not the occupier of thefe 

 cottages, who, in fadt, gets what advan- 

 tage there is to be had. The cottagers 

 themfelves are not, in any fliape, more 

 comfortable than thofe who live in pa- 

 rifhes, where there are no commons ; be- 

 caufe if there be any advantage to be de- 

 rived from their fituation, they do not 

 enjoy it without paying for it. But I am 



inclined 



