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" The tenant will always be certain of having a preference 

 " given him over every other perfon, and will of courfe go 

 •' on with unceafing exertions to better his land, which will 

 " of necedity tend to augment the income of the proprietor 

 " much more than could have happened under any other 

 «* fyftem of management. 



** Such are the outlines of that plan of a leafe that his 

 *' lordfhip has propofed. By this plan the tenant's hands 

 '* are not tied up by reftriflive claufes didlated by igno- 

 ** ranee, under the pretext of fecuring the intereft of the 

 " landlord. His intereft is fecured in a much more effedual 

 *' manner, while the tenant is left at full liberty to avail 

 <* himfelf of his knowledge, his flcill and his induftry. 

 " Inftead of ceafing to begin any arduous undertaking, as 

 *« he ever muft do where he has no leafe, or of beginning 

 '* to improve for a few years only at the commencement of 

 " his leafe, but flopping in a fliort while in the midft of 

 ** his career, and then running it down to the fame exhaufted 

 ** ftate as it was at its cornmencement, he continues to puiTi 

 »« forward without ever flopping; and advances even with 

 " an accelerating progrefs for an endlefs period of years. 

 " No perfon but an experienced farmer can conceive the 

 *' difference that would be between the produftivenefs of the 

 «' fame land under this management, at the end of a hun- 

 " dred years, from what it would have been if let even for 

 *' detached periods of twenty-one years each. In unimproved 

 " wafte lands, the difference would approach to infinity. 

 *' In lands which were originally very rich, the difference 

 " would be lefs confidcrable; but in all cafes were cul- 

 ** tivation could take place, the difference would be very 

 <^ great. 



" It is worth remarking here alfo, that if this arrange- ^ 

 •* ment were adopted, a new order of men in civil fociety 



'< would 



