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fancy, that they are forced to be almoft 

 bribed to threfh. 



Perhaps there is no part of the kingdom 

 which can furnifh a ilronger inftance of 

 employment creating hands, than that of the 

 works, I have juft mentioned. It ha^ been 

 averted, by abundance of writers, that the 

 kingdom wants people to carry on the un- 

 dertakings publick and private, which are 

 always in agitation. Thofe circumftances 

 which either prove or difprove this affer- 

 tion, however leemingly trivial, ought not 

 to be overlooked : Several of the gentle- 

 men, and many of the farmers of this 

 neighbourhood afTert, that the war carried 

 off fo many men, that it was with diffi- 

 culty the harvefis could be got in ; but t 

 never heard, here or any where elfe, that 

 a (ingle field of corn was ever left to fpoil 

 for want of hands to cut and carry it ; nor 

 do I remember any where the mention of 

 one barn of corn, that remained full for 

 w r ant of men to threfh it : General com- 

 plaints have been, and are very common, 

 but thofe inftances which prove the afler- 

 tions, will be found extremely rare ; the 

 war might occafion a fcarcity of hands 

 ufually employed, but that fcarcity in the 

 nature of things will bring forth others not 

 ufually employed until the increafe of em- 

 ployment will be foiled to raife men like 

 mumrooms. 



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