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Rh supposed to be the most industrious and the worst paid of any labourer in Europe, that the farmer is scarcely better off than the labourer; and that in Flanders population is not merely at a standstill, but diminishing.

It may be objected that, however little advantageous to the agricultural classes themselves, la petite culture of Belgium turns out a greater amount of gross produce than any other method of cultivation known in Europe. This is probably the case, if we omit all reference to cost, and, under suitable circumstances, it is (at all events, for the