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keep his landlord in temper : the confequence 58. 



need not be traced. 



Thus it appears that the poverty of prefent FARMERS.* 

 farmers, more particularly of middling and 

 fmall farmers, refults in fome meafure from an 

 advance in the expences of houfe- keeping and 

 an advance in the parifh-rates ; but principally 

 from the prefent fcarcity of money, and from 

 the late rife of rents. 



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FEBRUARY 5. In finking a well near Gun- TUB 

 ton-Houfe, the workmen it feems traced the 

 tap-root of an oak, through an uniformly 

 white fand, to the depth, I think, of twenty 

 feet. The tree was neverthelefs uncommonly 

 healthy and beautiful. 



This ihews that a ftrong foil is not neceffary 

 to the production of fine oaks. 



There might, however, be one circumftance 

 favourable to this oak. The ftratum which it 

 grew in might be impregnated with the drain- 

 age of the houfe and offices ; for of fo abfor* 

 bent a nature is this bottomlefs bed of fand, 

 that it drinks up the whole drip of the houfe, 

 together with the overflowings, and wafte wa- 

 ter, and filt of every denomination. 



Nor 



