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REFLECTIONS ON THE GREAT IMPOR- 

 TANCE OF COTTAGES. 



ESTATES being of no value with- 

 out hands to cultivate them, the 

 labourer is one of the mofl: valuable 

 members of fociety; without him the 

 richeft foil is not worth owning. His 

 fituation then fhould be confidered, and 

 made at leaft comfortable, if it were 

 merely out of good policy. There is 

 certainly no objed: fo highly deferving 

 the country gentleman's attention; his 

 intereft, and his duty equally prompt 

 him, to do all he can, to place him upon 

 a better footing than he is at prefent. 



The firft point to be taken under 

 confideration is, the flate of the cotta- 

 ges, which thefe ufeful people inhabit ^ 



and 



