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It is not more than fifty years ago, that some of the counties in

the neighbourhood of London petitioned the parliament against the

extension of the turnpike roads into the remoter counties. Those

remoter counties, they pretended, from the cheapness of labour,

would be able to sell their grass and corn cheaper in the London

market than themselves, and would thereby reduce their rents, and

ruin their cultivation. Their rents, however, have risen, and

their cultivation has been improved since that time.