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other, great eflates are of advantage to the public, 

 as they have a tendency to keep the price of land 

 down to a proper level, which otherwife would, in 

 many places, become fo exceflive, as to give no 

 encouragement to an induftrious occupier. 



As to the general flandard however, of rents iri 

 this county, fubject to poor rates and tythes, I be- 

 lieve it varies from 20s. to 16s. an acre, in the firfi 

 divifion of the county, which I have defcribed* 

 from 1 8s. to 14s. in the fecond ; from 14s. to 8s. in 

 the third ; from 12s. to 4s. in the fourth; and, in the 

 Marfliland hundred, from 30s. to 20s. The ave- 

 age of the whole county is about 15s. ; and though 

 this would be a dear rent, for the fame foil, in mod 

 other counties, the nature of the hulbandry, and 

 the induury of the inhabitants, render it eafy, and 

 rents are better paid in this county, than in almoft 

 any other, as there is hardly any fuch thing as 

 an arrear known ; at the fame time, the farmers 

 live, as they are entitled to do, with comfort. 



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