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clofe to their farms; and nothing is more 

 common, than for a poor labourer to be 

 obliged to come a mile, and fometimes 

 more, to his labour, and return home 

 again at night, in all kinds of weather, 

 after he has done a hard day's work. 

 Cottages fhould therefore be eredled, if 

 poffible, on fome fheltered fpot, near the 

 farm where the labour lies; and true 

 policy points out, that every farm ought 

 to have a fufficient number of fuch ufeful 

 appendages, in proportion to its fize. 

 Such cottages, under fome fuch regula- 

 tions as thefe, would be of great ufe and 

 ornament to a country, and a real credit 

 to every gentleman's refidence ; as, on 

 the contrary, nothing can refled greater 

 difgrace upon him, than a fhattered mi- 

 ferable hovel at his gate, unfit for human 

 creatures to inhabit. Upon encourage- 

 ment like this good tenants would never 



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