|.o8 WORKPEOx^LE. 



give them piece-work, — to be paid for, by 

 rneafurement, or in grofs. 



Neverthelefs, the wages of the Diflrid:, 

 feeing the great rife in the price of hving, 

 appears to me to be too low -, arid what the 

 farmers fave in the expence of labor, they 

 probably lofe-Uy pillage, and in the poor's 

 rate. All ranks of people, FARM LA- 

 BORERS ONLY EXCEPTED, have 

 had an increafe cf income, with the in- 

 creafe of the prices of the neceffaries of 

 life ; or, which is the fame thing, with the 

 decreafe in the value or price of money. 

 This may, in a great meafure, account for 

 the increafe of the poor's rates, in country 

 Dariilies, without brins;ino; in the deeene- 



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racy and profligacy of the prefent race of 

 working people, compared with the paft ; 

 though fome part of it, I believe, may be 

 fairly laid to the charge of that degeneracy, 

 which, if the tailc were not invidious, 

 WQuld not be difficult to account for. 



IL SERVANTS. The moil rem.ark- 

 able circumllance, in the economy of farm 

 fervants, in this part of the Ifland, is that 



of 



