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eftimate it below the real value: if he get* 

 the farm below the amount he rates it at* 

 fo much the better; he will then have the 

 fatisfadion of knowing to what amount he 

 has the better of the bargain : If he doesi 

 not form fo exact an eftimate as to be deter- 

 mined not to exceed it one milling, he 

 leaves the treaty with his landlord to the 

 common haggling way of making bargains, 

 and will be loft in confufion, having no 

 abfolute point to which he may advance, and 

 no further. 



This regular method of arranging his 

 ideas, of reducing every thing to calculation 

 and certainty, will alfo give a man great 

 advantages when a farm is to be hired at a 

 mort warning, with fcarce any time for 

 confideration. In that cafe, a man who 

 takes no fuch guide rejects the bargain for 

 want of time to reflect, to confult his 

 friends, and to make an hundred trivial 

 enquiries of r what fort of crops the laji 

 tenant gained ? and other fuch trivial matters. 

 But he who has made a regular eftimate of 

 every article, can treat and conclude in five 1 

 minutes as well as five months; and con- 

 fequentiy will have, in every cafe, the 



greateft 



