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reased in productiveness. But the benefit is not all on the side 

 f the proprietor. The tenant is glad to pay the increased rent, 

 nd finds his interest in it, as the following will show : 

 " The parish of Limber, 4,000 acres, was formerly let to four 

 •nants, at 2s. 6d. per acre, and all four became bankrupts. It 

 as been enclosed — is well farmed, and at the present rent the 

 mants are doing well. In some instances, considerable fortunes 

 ave been made." 

 In many cases the tenants join with the proprietors in the cost 

 t improvements, and in some cases even make them alone. One 

 islcince is cited where the annual bill of the tenant for bones was 

 om ^1,500 to jE 1,800. " He died a few years since, and left a 

 irtune." 



Mr. Pusey, in his report on the agriculture of Lincolnshire, 

 tore the Royal Agricultural Society of England, records the 

 Hewing remarkable fact. The gentleman with whom he was 

 urneying, pointed out to him a pillar 70 feet high by the road- 



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" It was," says Mr. Pusey, "a land lighthouse, built no longer 

 me than the middle of the last century, as a nightly guide over 

 e dreary *\'aste w'hich still retains the name of Lincoln Heath, 

 it is now converted into a pattern of farming. This Dunston 

 liar, lighted no longer time back for so singular a purpose, did 

 ipear to me a striking witness of the spirit and industry which 



our days has raised the thriving homesteads around it, and 

 ; read a mantle of teeming vegetation to its very base ; and it was 

 atainly surprising to discover at once the finest farming I had 

 <er seen, and the only land lighthouse that was ever raised. Now 

 lat the pillar has ceased to cheer the wayfarer, it may serve not 

 I iy as a monument of past exertions, but as a beacon to en- 

 mrage other land owners in converting their dreary moors into 



lilar scenes of thriving industry. Within living memory it was 

 i no means useless : for Lincoln Heath was not only without 

 (Uure, but without even a road. When the late Lady Robert 



inners wished to visit Lincoln, from her residence at Bliholm, 

 rrroora was sent forward previously, who examined some tracks 

 ?il returned to report that one was found practicable. Another 

 f fiily was lost in this heath twice in one night, in returning from 



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