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agriculturist here, is that the land is divided 

 into small farms, seldom exceeding one 

 hundred acres, and the greatest part of 

 of them are under fifty ; a farmer and his 

 family will therefore almost have it in their 

 power to cultivate the land without hiring 

 labourers. Supposing he has a wife, three 

 sons, and two daughters, and rents a farm 

 of fifty acres, the females will do as much 

 hard work out of doors as the men, and the 

 whole of the business will thus be carried 

 on by the family, except threshing out the 

 corn, which they think beneath them. And 

 their manner of living too is so differ- 

 ent to that of our yeomanry, that the ex- 

 pense of the table is a mere trifle. The 

 paupers in any poor-house in England 

 would fancy they were going to be starved 

 if only allowed the same food upon which 

 many of the farmers in France live. I am 

 here speaking of those parts of Normandy 

 which, for a length of time I was in the 



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