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againfl; the cultivation of the wafl-^';. The want of Lenfts 

 comes again into view as a fignal d foo'iragsment, which is 

 well iiluftrated bj' a correfponient, whofe difcription of his 

 own cafe muft excite the fympathy of every cultivator. The 

 Limitations upon Management , which obtain in many places, 

 are juftly confidcred as obftacles in the way of every expe- 

 rienced improver : for, as here ftated, the tenant, under fuch 

 reftraint?, ^nd w ithout a leafe, is but a fteward on his farm, 

 if not -a. Jlave. Throughout the whole of the reafoning on 

 the affigning or fubfetting of land, and the various afpefli of 

 the relation of landlord and tenant, the author appears to 

 point to a degree of independence, on the part of the tenant- 

 ry, abfolutely incompaiible with the a6laal ftnte of thing-.; 

 for if all the tenants had leafe?, what would become of the 

 influence of landlords, in eledions for Parliament, Scr. the 

 purity of which we are fo much inrerclled in prefervlng ? 

 Yet a claufe in the leafe might provide againft this offence •, 

 but then other modes of dependence, attaching to tenures ?t 

 will, (land unfortunately in the way of ieafes. The fna'L 

 fize of farms is alfo mentioned as an hin<l.rrance to improve- 

 ment ; and while every little arable farmer muil have a tenm 

 of heavy horfes, devouring a great proportion of his produce, 

 there is not a doubt about it, but fmall grifs farms are much 

 wanted in many parts of rhe Riding, for which there is every 

 encouragement, from the conftant high price of their prc- 

 du£l:s, and the confequent high rate of the rental. 



Chap. 1 8. is on the Means of Improvement ^ which we ir- 

 troduce in the author's own words: 



" Agriculture is the parent ci all the arts, and the praflice of 

 It may be confidcred as a flandard for the Houriihing of other^. 

 It has, for fome years part, been a principal objeft in the feveral 

 governments of Europe, to frame laws and regulations for its 

 encouragement j and the eftabliHiment of a Board for piomoting 

 Agriculture and internal improvement, (htws it is not negledled 

 in our own country. We have, in the foregoing parts of this 

 work, fubmitted to the confideration of that Honourable Board 

 a ftate of the huibandry in this Riding: aid alfo pointed out, 

 for their infarraation, rhe principal obftacus which are inthe way 

 of further improvements : We now proceed to fugoei!; how thefj 

 obftacles may be removed, and what alterations ought to be in- 

 troduced into the hufbardry of the diftrift. 



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