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the full extent of Mr. Young's plan, would 
tend to make the cottager able to support 
himself and family upon his occupation, 
without any dependence upon his labour for 
'the farmer, not much unlike the lower class 
of people in Ireland. In this case we should 
not have hands to cultivate the soil: the 
plough, loom, and sail woivld be unemploy- 
ed, and when famine shall have reduced the 
numbers of tlm inhabitants to the scanty 
means of supplying the wants ol those who 
remain, we must return to the pristine state 
of things, thus described b\y Dr. Goldsmith : 
« There was a time ere England’s griefs began, 
‘ W'heii every rood of ground maintain’d its man. 
In our opinion, it \vould be a far better 
plan for every gentleman to provide neces- 
sary habitations, upon every estate, tor the 
labourers employed in the cultivation of the 
soil, allotting to each a small piece of ground 
attached to it, for the pimpose of producing 
potatoes and other esculent roots ; indeed, as 
much (according to the nature of the soil) 
