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other circumftances, prove beneficial both to his 

 landlord and himfelf. 



In every country where improvements have been 

 fuccefsfully and extenfively carried on, leafes have 

 been granted, and every proper and reafonable en- 

 couragement given to the tenants ; and where this 

 mode of letting lands on leafe has been introduced, 

 the proprietors have in every inftance found it for 

 their intereft to purfue the fame plan ; becaufe they 

 faw that the tenants, feeling themfelves poflefled of 

 an intereft in the improvement of the foil, beftowed 

 every degree of attention on that objedl, and the 

 landlord, at the expiration of the leafe, confidering 

 himfelf juftly entitled to derive fome advantage from 

 the exertion and induftry of the former tenant, to 

 whom he had given this affurance, demands and re- 

 ceives an additional rent. The beft proof, in this 

 cafe, that granting leafes is the moft probable means 

 of fecuring the improvement of farms, is to refer to 

 the particular diftrift now under review, where it 

 will be found, that it is only on thefe farms where 

 leafes are granted, that improvements are carried on 

 to any extent. 



It is true indeed, that few rnftances have occurred 

 here, where the proprietors have not behaved to their 

 tenants with that honour and good faith becoming 

 their rank and fortune. Yet there are inftances 

 where tenants have been obliged repeatedly to agree 

 to pay an advance of rent, rather than remove, while, 

 from the uncertainty of the tenure on which they 

 held their farms, they were debarred from making 

 thefe exertions, which an advance of rent demand- 

 ed, and which always happens in fuch cafes when 

 leafes are granted. 



While the proprietors remain fatisfied with the 

 rents which they receive, (which in general are high 

 enough under the prefent circumftances), it is not 

 probable that any material alteration will take place, 

 cither in regard to the manner of letting the land, or 



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