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" little more than twenty years near ten fold!!! Operations 

 •* on the fame plan have been carried on upon a confiderable 

 *• extenfive fcale by Mr. Cumming of Achry in Aberdeen- 

 •• Ihire ; who has in like manner by that means greatly 

 <* increafed the vakie of his eftate." 



It would be equally prefumptuous and obftinate to with- 

 hold that due approbation which the excellency of this plan 

 fo juftly claims ; at the fame time, the following obfer- 

 vations are with all due deference very humbly fubmltted. 



The tenant fliould be retrained, and that under the 

 fevereft penalty that it were pofTible to^' deyife and enforce 

 obedience to, during the whole term of his leafe, from 

 breaking up the prime paflures, or any of the meadow 

 land. 1 



The compenfation to the outgoing tenant fhould be con- 

 fined ftric^ly to the value of fuch benefits as the farm has 

 adlually, and exclufively derived from his labour, fkill, and 

 capital; and which fhould be determined by '.the judgment 

 of perfons living in the neighbourhood, and appointed by 

 each party: olherwife local clrcumftances, under which 

 in flri61: juftlce the tenant can have no fhadow of claim, 

 will fubjedl the landlord to an unfair difburfement, and 

 wring from him that concelTion which in ftrI6l equity he 

 ought to refid. The change in the value of money; the in- 

 creafe of trade, or the eftabllfhment of a manufadlory in the 

 vicinity of the farm ; and the confequent increafe of popula- 

 tion in the neighbourhood : the making of new, or the 

 improvement of old public roads : the proximity of an inland 

 navigation: a general plan of drainage; or the difcovery 

 of fome natural manure (uponrthe farm) applicable to the 

 further improvement of the eftate; are all circumftances 

 highly favourable to the interefl of the owner, but which 

 ought never to be appreciated by the outgoing tenant, as no 



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