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Tithes also are a grievous tax on the small 

 farmer, two-thirds of whose lands are generally 

 under grain. In a farm of four hundred acres, 

 about one hundred and fifty may be supposed 

 liable to corn tithes ; in small farms, the aggre- 

 gate number of acres of which being the same, 

 two hundred and sixty, or probably more, 

 would be found subject to the like claim. 



It is quite melancholy to dilate on such a 

 system, but more so to witness its operations, 

 without being able to suggest any practical 

 means for alleviating the misery of so many 

 millions of our fellow creatures. Adieu. 



J. C. C. 



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