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of thefe families. And I will venture 

 to alTert, that the poor rates will be 

 much higher in the latter, than in the 

 former mode of allotment ; becaufe a 

 great rnany families, which would get a 

 decent livelihood upon the farms of 30/. 

 40/. and 50/. a year, come to the parifli, 

 as I have before obferved, when they are 

 deprived of this method of fupporting 

 themfelves. 



If large edates were divided, in a 

 manner fomewhat fimilar to the preced- 

 ing plan, it would be a means of crufh- 

 ing another real grievance which at pre- 

 fent fubfiils, viz. the exorbitant price 

 put upon land, by the owners of fmall 

 eflates. A great farmer often lets a 

 fmall bargain, which he has picked up, 

 in the fame parifh where he rents a large 

 cftate himfelf, at the proportion of one 



third 



