NEAR TADCASTEE. 
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land is added, just enough to constitute 
him a little farmer, with a very small capi- 
tal, and to make him forego his profit and 
advantage as a labourer, his means of life, • 
instead of being improved by the acqui- 
sition of land, are prejudiced. No persons 
earn a harder or more precarious living, or 
do less good with their land, than very 
small farmers. The condition of a labourer, 
who has a well stocked garden, a couple of 
cows, a pig, and just ground enough to 
keep them, is affluence, compared with the 
lot of him, who attempts to live as a far- 
mer, on a small quantity of ground, not 
sufficient to maintain him as a farmer, 
tho abundantly adequate to its object, 
if divided among several labourers. 
ldthjuly, 1797. 
Printed by W. Bulmcr and Co. Cleveland-row. 
