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enough to want them. This probability 

 depends on many circumftances, which 

 there is no neceflhy to overlook. 



A farm may be one among many con- 

 tiguous belonging to one landlord ; in 

 which cafe there is a better chance for an 

 addition, than if it was the whole eftate of 

 the landlord, or all he pofleffed in that 

 neighbourhood. Since, if a neighbour's 

 farm is vacant, no one can afford to give 

 fo good a rent as a farmer contiguous to 

 it j and, confequently, he has a better chance 

 for iti than one whofe land is at a diftance. 



A farm may join up, or even be almoft 

 enclofed, by one infinitely larger than itfelf, 

 and too large for the occupier of the firft 

 to think of hiring. In this cafe, the fmall 

 farm is in a much greater probability to be 

 thrown to the great one, than the great 

 one to be annexed to the fmaller. Con- 

 fequently this fituation is, in the refpecl: 

 we are now confidering, a very unfavour- 

 able one. 



For the fame reafon, it is very advan- 

 tageous to hire a farm that joins upon 

 many others not larger than itfelf, but 

 rather fmaller. In this cafe there is an 

 C 4 evident 



