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the kingdom dependent on agriculture, \ 

 mall in this article allow for the reduction 

 of that of the farmers, and call the la- 

 bourers on an average at five fouls. This 

 will bring the whole very near the truth, 

 according to the given data-, and I have 

 great reafon to believe not in the leaft an 

 exaggeration of the reality. Nor will the 

 fuperiority of the labourers families to the 

 farmers be offenfive to ones obfervation ; 

 for more farmers are found unmarried, and 

 with fmall families, than labourers. It is 

 fomewhat remarkable, but the more able 

 men are to maintain and provide for fami- 

 lies, the lefs, upon an average, (I appre- 

 hend,) will be the number. It is a raoft 

 uncommon thing to find a labourer un- 

 married 3 and their cottages are generally 

 Hb full of children, that I believe I mould 

 be juftified in fuppofing the average high- 

 er. Thofe which have been laid down 

 by political arithmeticians, for the whole 

 kingdom, will not, I mould fuppofe, be 

 found juft to this body of men, who are 

 certainly more arTifiant to population than 

 the inhabitants of towns, manufacturers, 

 &c. &c. and confidering the nature of 

 their life, the wonder would be if they 

 were not. Upon the whole, we are to 

 reckon a farmer as four fouls, and a la- 

 bourer as five 3 boys, maids, and fervants, 



fingly. 



