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are nothing; the medium of the kingdom 

 is the only point to be confidered. 



But there is another circumftance which 

 makes this medium of two hundred 

 eighty-feven acres yet more moderate, 

 and it is that of including fome extreme 

 great farms in the North, on foils that 

 could not poffibly be divided into fmall 

 ones : Take a view of the Northumberland 

 moors, that are occupied by thoufands of 

 acres under a tenure; fuch farms exift 

 merely from being large ; were they not 

 immenfe, they would not exift at all : Many 

 of them contain vaft tracks of country, as 

 wild as it was centuries ago ; but being 

 occupied by very rich farmers, much of it 

 receives fome cultivation, which, bad as it 

 is, is, as far as it extends, beneficial to the 

 kingdom. Would it be better in fmall 

 farms ? Would it be cultivated at all ? 

 View, on every hand, considerable tracks 

 that are unoccupied, and to be hired, at 

 any time, for twelve-pence an acre. If 

 fmall farms, in fuch countries, are bene- 

 ficial, furely we mould fee fome of them : 

 The cottages that are fpread over it would, 

 by degrees, grow into farms, while fur- 

 rounded by land they may have for afking. 

 Great farms, in fuch countries, might, with 

 no impropriety, be thrown out of the quef- 



tion; 



