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the church, Is fo great tliat I hope you will go on with tliem, 

 efpecially as you fuul good crops of corn after them. I ^\n\\ my 

 garden (lufF not only helps my own table, but faves mc much 

 butcher meat ; for my fervants are fond of it, when not prefled 

 upon them, but givew as a favour. 



I cannot fiiy that 1 know any thing of flax by experience; but 

 have always heard, that the feed ought to be changed frequently. 

 I therefore advife your getting feed from Holland, though your 

 own may be excellent, and the felling of it may be apparently 

 attended with lofs. If you continue your refolution of coming 

 hito England, I believe T can get you recommendations to feveral 

 places in the north, about Stockton and in Yorkfliire. You will 

 lind fome very bad hufbandry ; but ftill, in moft places, fomething 

 to be learned upon the main. If you incline to come this length, 

 you fliall be welcome to lodging, for the time you can fpare ; and 

 fo you may fee London and its neighbourhood, and get ac- 

 ■quainted with feveral things which cannot fo well be explained 

 by writing. In general, I believe, you may depend upon my 

 inclining to aicourage indifry ; and, in p:irricular, where I find 

 it in cue of my ozvn tenants^ ami one horn and bred upon my cwn 

 ^Jrate^ tc luhom I aliuays ihinh I have a particular relation^ and a 

 tie upon me to encourage.^ more than f rangers ; fo you may expeB 

 all that a landlord can do for your conveniency in the br-eivcry^ if 

 you think of it, and that you can make by it, without fuffering 

 in your farm, and other bufinefs in which you are engaged. As 

 I fliall have a regard for you in any thing I fliall a-0:, fo I expect 

 you will defire nothing of me but what is reafonable; and that 

 you will not think that I am not to have a reafonable return for 

 the money I have, and mull lay out before that houfe and all 

 belonging to it is made complete •, and alfo a reafonable rent for 

 the land you have added to it. As I believe ive brjh incline to do 

 fairly by each other in fuch things^ 1 can't think we can differ, if, 

 upon feccnd thoughts, you fhall judge it convenient for you, 

 and that you can really find advantage by engaging in it, at fuch 

 a rent as I can reafonably let it at; and I am fure you know me. 

 well enough, to think that I don^t incline tofaucezc^ efpecTaily froni 

 you or your friends_, to whom I have always Ihovvn the greatefl 

 favour. 



If you think of this, I wonld have y^^^ employ fome of your 

 time, before you fet out, in endeavouring to fee tlie Scots way 

 of malting and brewing, both at Ei'.inburgb. and other great malt- 

 ing houfes, fuch as Mr Fall's at Dunbar, and MrMathic's in your 

 neighbourhood. You will the fooner underfland what you fee 

 in England, that you have fome notion of it; and alfo you will be 



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