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tinuance that attracts hands in fpite of all 

 obftacles. I was a farmer myfelf, during the 

 war, as well as at prefent ; and have often 

 heard of thefe complaints among my neighs 

 hours, at the very time that I could have 

 procured hundreds of men for zd. extra per 

 day. 



But to this it is anfwered, that although 

 railing prices will command numbers of men,, 

 yet, as thofe men mufr. come from fome- 

 where, fome perfons who hefore employ- 

 ed them mult be diftrefled. But the re- 

 ply to fuch an argument is but the com^ 

 bination I before noticed : A farmer in the 

 parifh of ji y hires twenty men more than 

 ufual ; thefe twenty men come from the 

 pariihes of B, C, and D, but the quantity of 

 labour in thofe places being proportioned to 

 the old demand, the farmers are diftreiTed 

 for want of thofe twenty hands ; they add a 

 trifle to their wages, and gain by that means 

 eighteen hands from the pariuhes of£ and F ; 

 the rife of wages adds the other two hands 

 to make up the compliment from the non- 

 induftrious -, that is, from the clafs who are 

 idle when pay is but a milling, but work 

 v/hen it is fourteen-pence : E and F, di- 

 ftrefTed for their eighteen hands, gain fix- 

 teen from G and H, and add two to the 

 number of their own induftrious by an ad- 

 vance of wages, G and H do the fame by 



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