74 MANAGEMENT OF ESTATES. 



■ But the cafe is very diiFerent with a man, 

 who is to pay his rent halfyearly, and to 

 conform with a variety of covenants and 

 regulations, which are neceiTary to the 

 fpecies of tenancy, now under confide- 

 ration. In this cafe, it is not more the 

 rent, than th^ man, that is to be looked to, 

 and chofen. Among candidates, at auctions, 

 for letting farms, are generally adven- 

 turers, who want judgment, and men of 

 defperate fortunes, who want a temporary 

 fubiiftence ; and thefe men will ever be 

 the highcft bidders j will ever outbid men 

 of judgment- and capital ; fuch as will pay 

 their rent, keep up their repairs, and im- 

 prove the land -, and fuch as ought ever to 

 be, and ever are, the choice of judicious 

 managers of eflates. There is a fair mar- 

 ket price for farms, as for their produce ; 

 and no man is fit to be entrulted with the 

 management of an eilate, who cannot af- 

 Certiin the value of its lands, and who, 

 having afcertained this, does not prefer a 

 man of judgment and capital, to ^ny nominal 

 Xmti which fpeculation can offer him. It 



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