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cottages for fo much-as he might at rack-rent, yet what he does get, is all clearmoney ; and by this means he preferves the value of all other parts of his eftate,by keeping up a proper number of inhabitants. The latter, he thinks, finds hisaccount in it, becaufe he makes a fettlement for his family; and can repair andimprove his cottage at leifure hours with his own hands ; and if he be an induf-trious man, he can generally find a friend to lend him his firft fine, on fuch anoccafion, if he cannot raife it himfelf*.

This is a plan that has been attempted with fuccefs in different diftrifits ; butjt is, perhaps, better calculated,for the large than the fmall proprietor.

From what has been advanced, it muff be fufficiently evident that the build-ing of proper cottages for farming labourers is not merely a matter that intereftsthe proprietors of land, infomuch as it renders the fituation of that ufeful clafsof workmen more comfortable, but which, at the fame time, has a great tendencyto promote the full and complete cultivation of the foil.

* Kent’s Hints, p. 217. ,

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