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during my tour ; I never failed to make mi- 

 nute enquiries into the real ftate of the cafe, 

 and always gained the fatisfaclion I fought. 



I found the want of hands complained 

 of, was relative to nothing more than price : 

 Labour was lbme times unufually dear, which 

 occafioned an unufual clamour : But as to 

 any work that ever flood ftill for want of 

 hands, when the money requiiite was ready, 

 I could no where difcover a lingle inftance. 

 In fome parts, where I made thefe en- 

 quiries, I found many caufes confpired to 

 render hands fcarce 5 turnpikes, naviga- 

 tions, drainages, and inclofures, all at once 

 had operated, with the war, to diftrefs the 

 farmer; I neverthelefs could not difcover 

 one inftance of any necefTary work in huf- 

 bandry ftanding flill for. want of hands ; no 

 field unplowed; none unreaped; no barn 

 of corn unthrafhed. At the fame time, I 

 converfed with many gentlemen upon their 

 buildings and improvements ; and I never 

 found one that wifhed to form a water; im- 

 prove a park ; or to execute any great work, 

 that ever dreamt of a want of hands : The 

 cafh was the only object. 



At certain feafons of the year, a man 

 may certainly want to lay out, in a hurry, 

 forty or fifty pounds extraordinary, without 

 being able; but that proves nothing: It is 

 an employment of fome regularity and con- 

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