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All the timbers fhould be examined ; the 

 boarding, brick work, tiling, thatch, 

 plaftering, paving, &c. &c. &c. every 

 article viewed attentively; their duration 

 eftimated, and the expence of the probable 

 reparations reduced to calculation. If fuch 

 cautions are net taken, a man may find him- 

 felf in a few years in the midft of unex- 

 pected expences ; than which nothing can 

 be more fatal, unlefs he is (as indeed all 

 ought to be) much ftronger than his 

 farm. 



It is very eafy to calculate the Amount of 

 the repairs during any given number of 

 years, then to divide it into an annual fum ; 

 and, laflly, to proportion it to fo much. 

 an acre rent. This is the practice that 

 ought in numerous inftances to be fol- 

 lowed. 



CHAP. VII. 



Of roads and paths through a farm. 



AT firft fight this may appear a circmn- 

 ftance too trivial to be confidered ; 

 but that notion is a great miftake. I have 



feen 



