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came in the way, he was encouraged in the idea of 

 permanency of occupation by the offer of a lease not 

 merely for his lifetime, but for the period of one or two 

 lives in succession after his own, he naming his suc- 

 cessors. Some of these leases granted soon after 1782 

 had not finally expired in 1860. 



