63 MINUTES Oct. 



137. fubfequent repairs during the term. Alfo that 

 JNctosuRES tenant fliould pay half the expence of work- 

 men's wages for the fubfequent repairs; pro- 

 vided that fuch tnoiety do not exceed five 

 pounds in any one year. 



This was a liberal agreement on the part of 

 the landlord, and, on a curfory view, may feem 

 to give extravagant encouragement to the 

 tenant. The following calculation, however, 

 will Ihew that, in the end, the plan will turn 

 out highly advantageous to the landlord. 



SuppolCj for the fake of calculation,- the 

 quantity of heath-land, let to this tenant, to 

 be exactly three hundred acres : and that thefe 

 three hundred acres are divided into thirty in- 

 clofures of ten acres each ; with a public road, 

 or a driftway, between each line of inclofures. 

 This is fufficiently near, if not exactly, the 

 fact upon Felbrigg-Heath. 



In this cafe, every inclofure required to be 

 fenced on three fides. 



Ten acres contain one thoufand fix hun- 

 dred ftatute rods. The fqunre root of one thou- 

 fand fix hundred is forty ; consequently each 

 inclofure, fuppofing them to be exactly fquare, 

 required one hundred and twenty ftatute rods 

 of fencing. 



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