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further than the present tenant may see it for 

 his interest ; and therefore may think it hard 

 that he should be excluded from this rise for so 

 long a period. Whether or not this be a hard- 

 ship, must depend very much upon the terms 

 of the original bargain. It is to be supposed 

 that a tenant will give more rent, if the lease 

 ghall extend to 38 years, than if limited to 19 ; 

 and in this way the proprietor may receive the 

 full equivalent of any advance of rent he could 

 reasonably expect. 



But whatever be in this, as the case stands at 

 present, it is evident, that between the back- 

 wardness of landlords to grant long leases, and 

 the hardships which tenants suffer under short 

 ones, a considerable portion of the lands in the 

 county are kept in a waste and unproductive 

 state, and at best can make but slow advances 

 in improvement. 



In order to remove this great obstacle to the 

 progress of agriculture, which short leases, and 

 the jarring interests and mutual jealousies of 

 proprietors and tenants, had unhappily thrown 

 in the way, a plan of a kase was devised by the 

 late Lord KAIMS, a gentlemen not more distin- 

 guished, perhaps, by his abilities as a lawyer, 

 than by his knowledge of husbandry. As this 

 plan has been highly applauded by some good 

 judges, I shall state it to the public, as it has 

 been particularly detailed by Doctor ANDERSON, 

 in his Agricultural Survey of Aberdeenshire ; 

 and the rather, as some observations upon it, 

 which I mean to suggest, could not otherwise 

 be so well understood, 



