Io6 FARMERS. 



pcrly. There are, no doubt, many excep-s 

 tions to this general pofition. 



Their education is another bar to 

 improvement. Many of them, as has been 

 intimated, have rifen from fervants of the 

 lovvefl clafs ; and having never had an 

 opportunity of looking beyond the limits of 

 tlie immediate neifrhbourhood of their 



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birth and fervitude, follow implicitly the 

 paths of their makers. 



Their knowledge is of.courfe con- 

 fined ; and 



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The SPIRIT of IMPROVEMENT deeply 

 buried under an acpcumulation of cufromand 

 prejudice. 



There are, however, fome few indivi- 

 duals, in the DiHiricfr, who are ^ruggling to 

 break through the thick cruft of prepofr 

 ftflion, under Vvdiich the country feems to 

 have been long bound down. But they 

 have not vet obtained, fufficiently, the 

 confidence of the lower clafs of occupiers. 

 Their exertions, however, may convince 

 the latter that the eflablifhed prad:ice of 

 the DilLri'ft m.iy be deviated from, withoiit 

 •0ang.:;r- 



3. WORK- 



