WEST DEVONSHIRE. SQS 



reaching from the largeft proprietor, down 

 to the farm fervant, or paridi prentice ; 

 who having, by his temperance and fruga- 

 lity, faved up a few pounds, and, by his 

 indaftry and honefty, eftabUflied a fair 

 charadier, is entrufted with one of the 

 fmall holdings that are fcattercd in every 

 parifh ; and who, perhaps, by perfevering 

 in the fame line of condud, afcends, ftep 

 after fcep, to a farm of a higher order. 



The QITALIFICATIONS of PROFES- 

 SIONAL OCCUPIERS, including fmall pro- 

 prietors, lifeleaTeholders, and tenants, will 

 not be found, on a general view, at prefent, 

 equivalent to the natural and adventitious 

 advantages of the Difcria, nor fuch as are 

 likely to give effeO: to thofe advantages ; 

 fo as to raife the Rural Management of this 

 extremity of the Ifland, to a par with that 

 of lefs favored parts of it. 



The PROPERTY of occupiers of this 

 clafs is abforbed in life leafeholds. If a 

 man can purchafe a farm he will not rent 

 one ; and, in purchafing, he incapacitates 

 himfelffi-om occupying his purchafe, pro- 

 ■ pcrly« 



