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men from the plain and more certain path 

 of indullry. Purchaiing a life leafe is 

 putting in a flake at a game of chance. 

 An inllance fell within my own know- 

 ledge, in which two fets of lives have 

 ceafed, and of courfe the eftate has heen 

 twice fold, while a woman who was ex- 

 cluded, through a 77iere circumjiance, from 

 being one of the nominees in the firfl pur- 

 chafe, is flill living. And, on the other 

 hand, there is a well known inftance, in 

 which the leffee, at the expiration of the 

 term of ninetynine years, tendered his 

 leafe, in perfon, to the defcendant of him, 

 from whom his anceflor had received it. 



To the proprietor of an ertate, this is, 

 in many refpedls, a difagreeable fpecies of 

 tenancy. His income, as has been iliewn, 

 is exceedingly uncertain ; and, what to a 

 man of fentiment is worfe, it literally arifes 

 out of the deaths and diftrcffes of the inha^ 

 bitants of his eflate : befide the unplea^ 

 fant and unprofitable circumftance of hav- 

 ing his lands in everlailing bondage. Let 

 them lie aukwardly for the tenants, or 

 intermix.ed with the lands of others, or in 



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