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Upon building materials used for all other pur^ 
poses, which would possess the additional ad- 
vantage of operating as a prohibition of ex- 
cessive building, by means of which many 
of the heads of families in the kingdom are 
very materially injured, and the younger 
branches left without provision, while archi- 
tedls are enablid to quit their own sphere to 
become borougli-raongers and politicians. 
If it were necessary, we could exhaust the 
patience of our readers with multiplied in- 
stances to prove that the different sizes of 
farms will vary according to the capitals of 
the farmers, at different periods, and the 
nature of the respective soils to be cultivated. 
At this moment, when the extended cultiva- 
tion and drainage of immense traCfs of fo- 
rests, commons, heaths, fens, moors, wastes, 
and land to be reclamed from the sea, will de- 
mand industry, talent, genius, and the liberal 
expenditure of capital, to improve them, to 
propose the limiting the size of farms is a 
most wanton exercise of theoretical opinions. 
The next subjeef is ‘ the immense number 
of horses kept in-this kingdom.'* 
