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OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO BUILD- 

 INGS AND REPAIRS. 



THE firft objed in the management 

 of an eftate is, to diicover and 

 adopt all pra(5licable modes of improve- 

 ment upon the land. The fecond relates 

 to fkill, and frugality, in the conflrud:ion 

 of fuch neceilary buildings as the eftate 

 may require, and care and contrivance 

 in their occafional reparation. 



The following general rules refped:ing 

 new eredtions may be worth obferving. 

 *' Not to build any thing but what will 

 *' be really ufeful. To build upon a 

 '' fmall compadl fcale, and as much as 

 *' poffible upon fquares, or parallelo- 

 ** grams, not in angles or notches. To 

 ** build at all times fubflantially, and 

 ** with good materials. Not to lay any 



** timber 



