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it any, would be fmall, and might be borne 

 bv the county. And tlierc appears to be no 

 folid objedV/iort to a regulation^ which would 

 in the end be produdive of public as well 

 as private good : for whatever tends to thd 

 advancement of cultivation and the well-or- 

 dering of fociety, contributes to the virtue 

 and proi'pcrity of a nation. 



II. Pl'Rchase of Lands. From the mul- 

 tiplicity of fmall eflates in this Didricl, fre- 

 quent transfers of property take place ; a 

 market for land is always open, and the fair 

 market-price pretty accurately underftood ; 

 confequcntly x\\q fluBuating value of land may 

 here be obferved to advantage. 



Some -.cars ago the price was extremely 

 high ; forty or fifty years purchafe upon a 

 very high rent : lands not worth fifteen fliil- 

 lings an acre rent were fold for forty pounds 

 purchafe. This, however, was not uniform 

 through the Diftvict : for at the tiiiic thofe 

 extravagant ])rices were givvn in qwq part of 

 liie Vale, lands of twice the rental value to a 

 farmer were fold in other parts of it at ex- 

 actly the fame vnluc ; thoug-h the diflancc 

 between them is only a few miles ; and in 



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