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ADVANTAGES RESULTING FROM 

 SMALL FARMS, AND THOSE OF 

 THE MOST PROFITABLE SIZE DE- 

 SCRIBED. 



VERY fpccuktlve Englidiman 

 who travels through the Aujirian 

 NetherlaJidsy is aflonifhed at the great 

 population of that country, and at the 

 fight of the markets, which are plen- 

 tiful beyond defcription. Upon en- 

 quiring into the internal ftate, and re- 

 o-ulatlon of the countrv, he finds that 

 there are no large farms, no clafs of men 

 who pafs under the charadter of gentle- 

 men-farmers, acquiring large fortunes 

 merely by fuperintending the bulinefs of 

 farming, but that the whole country is 

 divided, into much fmaller portions than 

 land is v/ith us, and occupied by a (ct 

 of laborious people, who in general work 



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