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the fame Dirtrid iimilar land is not now 

 worth thirty pounds. 



The caufe of this dlfparity is a proper 

 fubjed of invelligatlon. The fituation in 

 one cafe is dry, with good roads-, in the other 

 low, and the roads deep a/.d dirty. 'Ti.rJ 

 is chiefly in the hands of fmall owners — mod 

 of them monied men, and anxious to increafe 

 their pojfcjjions : This principally in the oc- 

 cupation of tenants. In J'hat the rage cf 

 polTeffion had broken loofe, and ideal values 

 had in confequence been fixed to the lands 

 on fale ; while the lands of 1'his were cut cf 

 fafoion, and of courfe neglectfd. A move- 

 able commodity may be carried to the bcft 

 market ; but land can only be fold at what 

 is ertcemcd the fair market-price in the place 

 it happens to lie in. 



Hence it fecms to fellow, that a pcrfon 

 who wiihes to purchaie at a cheap market 

 without regard to locality, Ihould look for a 

 neglected Diftritft, and endeavour to avoid the 

 neighbourhood of fmall owners, and that in- 

 ordmate luft of poflcllion which is evidently 

 epidemical, but not continual. 



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