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feafons muft be the times of payment. Many of the 

 farmers are weavers of the firft rate; thefe are fuch as 

 keep three or four looms in their houfes, and have 

 poorer weavers alfo at work for them; in this cafe, the 

 latter generally pay the former the amount of the cot- 

 take in weaving ; moft commonly, part is paid by 

 weaving in the winter feafon, and part by common la- 

 bour in the feafons already mentioned. 



SECT. 4. General State of Leafes. 



TWENTY-ONE year leafes are moft prevalent through- 

 out the large eftates -, there are, however, many leafea 

 of other defcriptions, but very few lefs than twenty- 

 one years, except bifhop's leafes. 



In travelling through the country, the lands, held 

 under long leafes (fuch as thirty-one years, or lives, 

 which I confider long), are eafily diftinguifhed from 

 thofe of ftiort tenures, from the advanced fhte of the 

 improvements, fo confpicuous in the former. But this 

 obfervation only holds good, where no third perfon is 

 in queftion, which, indeed, is too often the cafe, as 

 fuch part of the land, held under rack-rent, can never 

 improve, fo long as it remains fo circumftanced. 



A large portion of the county is biftiop's land, fub- 

 jeft to various modes of renewing leafes, but all of 



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