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*« power to apply for improving his land, Inflead of acllve 



" exertions, and chearful affluence through life, he is thus 



** {tinted in every exertion ; and is doomed to a perpetual 



'* hard ftruggleagainfl the haralfments of poverty. In fhort, 



" were I either a proprietor or a tenant, I fhould either 



*' let or take land upon thefe terms in preference to any 



** other I have ever heard of. t 



** Several little claufes have been overlooked by his lord- 

 ** ihip which it would be neceifary to advert to. Some 

 ** provifion ought to be made refpedling trees on a leafe of 

 *• this kind, — as it Is probable the tenant might find it con- 

 ♦* venient to plant, which by the common law of Scotland, 

 *• he cannot do at prefent with a view to profit.* Per- 

 " haps the wood, if any was on the farm at the time of his 

 '* entry, ought to be valued; and he {hould be bound to leave 

 *' at leaft an equal value upon it, or pay the balance. 

 •' Whatever timber trees he himfelf had planted, he fhould 

 " be at liberty to cut at pleafure, for the ufe of the farm, 

 •* unlefs it were fuch individual trees as the landlord, from 



•f " Thofe who are fond of political calculations may have here full fcope for 

 their ingenuity, by fuppofing that two men of equal fplrit, knowledge and 

 capital fet out in the agricultural line, one of them as a farmer on a leafe 

 of the kind here propofed, and the other as a fmall proprietor,'^or yeoman. Let 

 the capital betaken any how at random, fay 2C00I. The yeoman we ihall fay 

 lays 1500I. of that fum on the purchafe of a farm, which at thirty years pur- 

 chase, the ufual rate at prefent, would be worth 50I. a year, and he has 500I. 

 left for (locking and improving it. The other leafed a farm which at a fair rent 

 was worth 200I. a year. Let him follow out the calculation, firft in regard to 

 the profits that the difterent occupiers themfelves can enjoy, and the rate at 

 which their families may afford to live, and fccond, with regard to the aug- 

 menttion of agricultural produce that each of them could afford to the ftate; 

 and let this be continued for the fpace of an hundred years. Let him then 

 ftrike the balance and fee what an amazing difference. 



* ** By the law of Scotland, no tenant has a right to cut any trees upon his 

 " farm. 



*« frtuation 



