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be wanting. Induftiy would meet with 

 a reward, the poor rates would necefTarily 

 be lightened, and population increafed, 

 A farm thus provided, Vvith fuch a fuf- 

 ficient number of labourers as might, at 

 all times and feafons, be depended upon, 

 would be of more value on that account. 

 The tenant of fuch farm would not be 

 fubjecft to pay exorbitant wages, as he 

 other wife muft, on particular occafions. 

 He would not be obliged to court the 

 vagrant, to lend him a precarious afTiil- 

 ance, or to have recourfe to towns, to 

 pick up diforderly people. In fummer, 

 befides the ufual bufinefs of hay-making, 

 he might employ even the women, and 

 children, in weeding, and other ufeful 

 bufmefs. 



Almofl: every parifli is. In a great mea- 

 fure, fubjecft to fome particular gentle- 

 man, who has fufficient power and in- 

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