WEST DEVONSHIRE. 43 



SECTION THE T HI R 15. 



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 PRESENT STATE OF THE DISTRICT 



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PRIVATE PROPERTY. 



THE SPECIES of property attached to 

 land feparates, in this as in other 

 Diftrids, into two orders : namely, 



I. PoffelTory property In the land itfelf- 

 11, Abilraario-htsarifingoutofit. 



I. POSSESSOPvY RIGHT, or LAND-^ 

 ED PROPERTY, puts on an appearance, 

 here, very different from that which it 

 wears in other parts of the kingdom. The 

 feefnnple is principally in the poiTeffion of 

 men of large property. But inflead of 

 letting out their lands to tenants, at an 

 annual rent equivalent to their value, they 



are 



