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populous, and fo full of manufactures, it is hard to 

 conjecture, and fhould certainly be a flrong ftimulus to 

 exertion in landlords, firft to prevent depredations oa 

 fo efTential an ingredient to the comfort of their te- 

 nants, and alfo to make every trial to fupply its defi- 

 ciency with coals, if this county is fo fortunate as to 

 contain any quantity of that valuable mineral. 



One circumftance, -which fimplifies the management 

 of eftates very much in this kingdom, is the cuflom of 

 the tenant keeping the premifes in repair ; no wafte is 

 here committed with the idea of the landlord paying 

 for it, nor any deduction in the yearly rent under that 

 head ; the fole expenfe is the expenfe of receiving, and 

 the only trouble, that of fetting the lands and regulat- 

 ing th,e turf-bogs. 



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SECT. 2. Tenures. 



I believe I fhall not be very wrong in faying, that 

 moft of the property of the county of Down, except 

 the bimop's lands, is freehold ; on feveral eftates there 

 are leafes for ever, many of them of confiderablc 

 value, others as low as forty or fifty pounds per c 

 annum; thefe having been fet in the middle, or in 

 the beginning of the laft century, are at a low rent, 

 and when pat up to (ale, from coming within the 

 reach of fa many purchafers, bring a much greater 

 proportional price than more extenfive traces. 



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