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grafsland to their fucceflbrs in the (late in 

 which it is, than to permit it to be broken 

 up and reduced, by improper treatment, to a 

 ftate (till lefs valuable. And were there no 

 means of avoiding the evils of improper ma- 

 nagement in tenants, landlords would be 

 fully warranted in a rigid refufal of their 

 rcquefls to break up old grafslands, though 

 unproductive and unprofitable. 



But, in the management of an eftate^ GRASS- 

 LAND and HEDGES ftand in nearly the fame 

 predicament. It is the tenant's interefl to 

 injure them ; and the landlord's bufmefs, of 

 courfe, to look td their prefervaticn. 



If on a farm, already in due proportion as to 

 GRASSLAND and ARABLE, the tenant rcquc'ft 

 to break up a piece of unproductive fvvard, it 

 is a duty which the landlord owes to the 

 community at large, to grant his requeft. 

 But it is, at the fame time, a duty which he 

 owes to himfelf and his fucceflbr, to oblijje 

 him to lay down an equivalent of arable land 

 to grafs. 



Not, however, a piece which has been cx- 

 hauftcd and rendered foul by a fucceffion of 

 corn crops ; but one which is in heart, and 



has 



