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 for instance, and in the neighbourhood of some very 



advan- 



of our great centres of population, there are tageous. 

 large tracts of comparatively infertile land, let 

 at low rents as farms, and yielding little satis- 

 factory return to anybody connected with them. 

 Cases may be met with where the limited owner, 

 who has inherited such a property from a 

 succession of men in a similar position of legal 

 incapacity, finds himself, in the midst of general 

 progress, constrained to keep perhaps half a 

 dozen parishes in a state almost of stagnation. 

 The country itself is most likely well-timbered 

 and very picturesque, with easy railway access 

 to the metropolis or town, and highly suitable 

 for residential occupation. He could sell it 

 readily, if he had the power, in small properties 

 for that purpose, retaining still an important 

 family estate. It would not be difficult to point 

 out cases in which this might be done with 

 immense advantage to the landowner, the neigh- 

 bourhood, and the public. Take, for example, 

 a limited owner of 10,000 acres of such land, 

 yielding a gross rent of i^io,ooo. If he were 

 enabled to sell 2,000 acres, which might fetch a 



