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FARMERS, 



I DO NOT mean to hold out the farmers of 

 Norfolk as a feparate order of men : farmers, 

 in every country, have, in their drefs, their 

 manner, their converfation, and their acquire- 

 ments, a ftriking refemblance : neverthelefs, in 

 every country, I find fome diflinguifliing cha- 

 radteriftic. 



The farmers of Norfolk are ftrongly marked 

 by a liberality of thinking, and, in confe- 

 -quence, by an opennefs in their manner and 

 converfation. This may be accounted for; 

 many of them have been, and fome of them 

 flill are, rich ; this has led them to mix, in si 

 greater or lefs degree, with what is called the 

 World ; of which their leafes render them inde- 

 pendant. A tenant-at-will, be his riches what 

 they may, is a fubaltern in fociety ; in which 

 he dares not to mix, left his landlord, or his 

 landlord's alTociates, Ihould be pleafed to take 

 offence. 



D 3 Thus 



