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little refleaion. If they have, their feel- 

 ings are not to be envied. Where this 

 has been the pra6tice, we fee a vaft num- 

 ber of families reduced to povert)^, and 

 mifer)% the poor rates much increafed, 

 the fmall articles of provifion greatlv di- 

 minifhed in quantity, and number, and 

 confequently augmented in price. 



A poor widow, left with a young fa- 

 mily, will ftruggle very hard to keep 

 her children from the parifh, when flie 

 is in pofTeflion of a fmall farm, or a 

 dairy, and will teach them the way to 

 be induilrious betimes; but if fhe be 

 deprived of the means of fupport, her 

 fpirits are broken, and fhe and her chil- 

 dren fmk at once into poverty, and be- 

 come burthenfome to themfelves, and 

 the public. Nor is this the worfl: of the 

 matter. The increafe of large farms has 

 a generally bad tendency. For as foon 

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