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of rent for the firft feven years. This en- 



couragement had the intended effeft ; and 

 4C now my ground for village-lots is alfo ex- 

 c haufted ; fo that I am obliged to treat for 

 ; my tenants for land to accommodate new 

 " fettlers, who now offer more than ever." 

 If once this came to be univerfally reduced 

 to practice, the increafe of feuers and vil- 

 lagers would be very rapid, and no perfon 

 hurt. What is it that has made the build- 

 ings in London, Edinburgh, and other cities, 

 increafe in fuch an extraordinary degree, and 

 fo very rapidly, but feus and long tacks. 

 The fame effe<5ts will be feen in every corner 

 where feuing was once begun, though not fo 

 rapidly at firft, nor fo great in extent. 



There was a very uncommon circumflance 

 that took place at Fort- William, the govern- 

 ment took pofTeffion of fome ground there, 

 belonging to his Grace the Duke of Gordon, 

 the family being then popifh, where they 

 built the fort. Not many years ago they a- 

 greed to pay rent for what ground the fort 

 took up, together with the gardens and in- 

 clofures ; which they are about making pur- 

 <:hafe of from the prefent Duke of Gordon. 



What is ftill more furprifing, there is juft 



now 



