194 KENT, 



he purchases his stock, materials, and imple- 

 ments. 



-The King's taxes are not what they used to 

 be : for, at one time, even agricultural horses, 

 and some kinds of carts, paid duty. The 

 chief thing remaining now, is the fond-tax, 



The landlord, as proprietor of the soil, has 

 an undoubted right to put any price he may 

 think proper upon it. It is for the farmer 

 to consider, before the bargain is made, what it 

 will suit him to give, taking other expenses into 

 the account. I may say, in a rough way, that 

 land, in England, varies from one pound, to two 

 or three pounds an acre, according to circum- 

 stances of soil, situation, and other particulars. 



The rent and other matters being agreed 

 on, a written engagement for a term of years, 

 whicn binds the landlord to let, and the tenant 



