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the power of raising the capital which is necessary 

 for their cultivation ; and the more strict and ex- 

 tended the entails, the more easy is the fulfilment 

 of these three conditions. The proof of this is, that 

 the agriculture of Scotland is superior to that of 

 England, and of England to that of Ireland, just 

 in proportion as the entails are more secured by 

 the laws in these three kingdoms. 



These very Commissioners, who in theory yield 

 to ideas adopted by the public without examina- 

 tion, themselves propose laws and regulations se- 

 curing to the tenants a possession of thirty-one 

 years, which is equivalent to an entail limited to 

 that space of time. 



