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On the Erection of Labourers' Cottacjes. 
the benefit of it at a Sunday's dinner, when butcher's meat is sold at a 
very high rate, and little money to purchase it. Bee-hives, are things I 
should much like to see the labourer in possession of; and for this rea- 
son, I have marked the letter i, vi'here they may be placed. 
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This design might be executed by a skillful workman, without the as- 
sistance of any other drawings, than the accompanying ones ; and here I 
cannot help remarking that your correspondent "Artus," might have 
contented himself with explaining the improvements in the labourer's 
houses at "Thurlby," without furnishing us with a perspective view of a 
cottage, which we can make no use of without a plan. 'Tis true, he 
promises to furnish us with the plans in a subsequent number. He 
should have reserved the elevation till then. A perspective view is very 
good, when it is merely intended to show the picturesque effect of any 
scene of landscape gardening ; but when it is held out as a model for 
instruction, the plan is indispensably necessary. 
