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make the moft of, by fair labour or induftry. Hence 

 arifes the baneful practice of taking in under-t -nants ; 

 no matter how poor, or of what character, provided 

 the middle-man gets his rent; but in this he is fre- 

 quently difappointed, and often little lamented. Thofe 

 wretched under-tenants work the land by repeated 

 cropping, till it is capable of yielding no more ; they 

 then generally run away, with whatever fpoil they can 

 make, moft commonly a year's rent. 



There are iome iuftances however, where the mid- 

 dle-man may be of more general ufe to the community 

 than the landlord. If the former be poflefled of a long 

 lucrative leafe, his intereft in the foil may be better 

 than that of the latter ; in this cafe he will find it his 

 intereft to deal reafonably with fteady under-tenants. 

 A lord of a foil, which perhaps he never faw, nor 

 intended feeing-, with a receiver, who may be alfo a 

 flranger to every kind of country bufinefs, and whofe 

 knowledge is confined to that only of receiving rents, 

 and contriving the beft ways and means to augment 

 them i are not the moft likely perfons to promote the 

 general welfare of the community. For this county, 

 it is very fortunate to have but few, if any, of that 

 dcfcription. 



The third degree of farms are commonly too fmall. 

 Though this fyftem is not altogether fo deftruftive to 

 the land as the former, yet it is a bar to a regular 

 courfc of induftry. The man, who holds a few acres, 



perhaps 



