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[314] "We started at daybreak for Glenties, thirty miles distant, over the mountains; and after leaving the improved cottages and farms on the Gweedore estate, soon came upon the domain of an absentee proprietor, the extent of which may be judged of by the fact, that our road lay for more than twenty miles through it. This is the poorest parish in Donegal, and no statement can be too strong with respect to the wretched condition, the positive misery and starvation in which the cottiers and small farmers on this immense domain are found."—James H. Tuke's Report to the Relief Committee of the Society of Friends. Appendix, p. 149. "We proceeded to Glenties [from Dungloe], still on the same property; and throughout our journey met with the most squalid scenes of misery which the imagination can well conceive. Whilst thousands of acres of reclaimable land lie entirely neglected and uncultivated, there are thousands of men both willing and anxious to obtain work, but unable to procure it."—Ib. p. 150.
[315] Note to his Essay on Absenteeism.
[316] From the Report, 814, Sess. 1826. Quoted by Mr. Senior.
[317] Political Economy, 5th Ed., p. 167.
[318] Political Economy. Book 3, c. I.
[319] Treatise on Political Economy, pp. 223-4.
[320] That is the common opinion of Political Economists.
[321] Political Economy, p. 155-6. 5th Ed.
[322] Adam Smith here regards Scotland as an integral part of Great Britain, the same as he would regard Yorkshire or Lancashire. Wealth of Nations, Book II., Chap. v.