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propoftl; I was not of age, but I pointed out to 

 my mother's brother the advantages that would 

 arife from clofing in with this offer, in fuch per- 

 fuafive terms, that after much deliberation he was 

 prevailed on to become a purchafer at i6ocl. The 

 cftate then let at 80L per annum, but did not clear 

 quite 50I. upon an average. Here was a large field 

 open for induftry, and my uncle profecuted it to 

 fuch good efFecl, according to examples I have 

 already laid down, that in a very few years this 

 farm was increafed to treble its value when pur- 

 chafed, and is at prefcnt worth, if it was to be fold, 

 upwards of 5000I. 



In the year 1757 I purchafed a farm of Marlh 

 Dickenfon, efq; then Lord-Mayor of London^ 

 which had for years been offered for fale, and which 

 every perfon was either unable or unwilling to buy« 

 Part of this land confided of fix acres in one clofe 

 fo exceeding poor that I was glad to let it by itfelf 

 at 40s. per annum. This however did not Jafl 

 long, for I added to my former method of hauling 

 the banks into the low parts to make it plain and 

 dry, feveral good drefiings with rotten dung and 

 good bank earth, mixed into a compoft by two 

 turnings, and this did the bufinefs ; for I imme- 

 diately let it to a tenant for a term of fourteen years, 

 at lol. per annum. The term hadi been expired 



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