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of the actual lucre of 2:ain as the fatal vis inertiee^ 

 that indolence whicli induces the lords of the soil to 

 be satisfied with what they can obtain from it by 

 immediate rent, ratlier than encounter the expense 

 and trouble of attempting; the modes of amelioration 

 which require inunediate expense — and, what is, per- 

 haps, more £i;rudo;ed by the first-born of Esnt'pt — a 

 little future attention. To such we can only say that 

 improvement by plantation is at once the easiest, 

 the cheapest, and the least precarious mode of in- 

 creasing the immediate value, as well as the future 

 income, of their estates ; and that therefore it is we 

 exhort them to take to heart the exhortation of the 

 dying Scotch laird to his son : — ' Be aye sticking in 

 a tree, Jock — it will be growing whilst you are 

 sleeping.' " 



