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inclined to believe, that the precarious 

 profits of a common fometimes difap- 

 point them j and that conftant, regular, 

 labour is a better fupport ; at leafl: it 

 would be, provided gentlemen of fortune 

 would take the laborious poor more un- 

 der their protedion ; for which I fhall 

 venture, in another place, to fuggeft a 

 plan. 



As to the advantage which population 

 is faid to receive, it bears no proportion, 

 to what it would do, if thefe commons 

 were cultivated, and difpofed into proper 

 allotments. It may be afferted, that, 

 within thirty miles of the capital, there 

 is not lefs than 200,000 acres of wafte 

 land. Thefe lands, in a proper ftate of 

 cultivation, allowing fifty acres to a fa- 

 mily, one with another, would find em- 

 ployment for, at leaft, four thoufand 

 families. It never can be faid, with 

 H 3 truth, 



