text:  In those counties the most miserable class of the peasantry exist; and nothing we think can prove more conclusively that their misfortunes and their wretchedness cannot with justice be attributed to the misconduct of their landlords but rather to their own _than the undisputed fact that in those districts in which the people are worst off the land is set at the lowest rent; and that where the greatest quantity of waste land is unreclaimed and where that which is under cultivation is worst managed and least attended to there invariably is to be found the greatest amount of unemployed labourers_