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he has the means to fupport a family, 

 and to make fome provifion for them, in 

 cafe any accident fhould happen to 

 himfelf. 



When young women arc left with 

 little eftates of this fort, they are the 

 better enabled to provide themfelves fuit- 

 able hufbands. 



Thefe eftates, preferving their original 

 form more than any other, and being, in 

 general, of a fmall fize, produce more 

 poultry, pigSj and dairy-articles, than 

 larger eftates ; and are much more be- 

 neficial to the community. Many gen- 

 tlemen of landed property are fo fond 

 of freehold, that they affedl to defpife 

 every other tenure; and I have heard 

 fome lament, that there was fuch a 

 thing exifting as copyhold, or leafehold. 

 Thefe are generally the greateft advo- 

 cates for large farms ; but if thefe were 

 Q_ to 



