4. YORKSHIRE. 2Z 



IV. Term. Lime beino- the fadlitious ma- 

 nure of the Diftrldl ; and upon old-inclofed 

 land, the principal means of improvement ; 

 it may feem that a fliort term would be here 

 fufficient. But if it be confidered that the 

 nature of much of the land, and the efla- 

 blifhcd praftice and produce of the country, 

 require an alternacy of corn and pafture, 

 fourteen years is a reafonable term : if the 



price of labour and produce could be fore- 

 known, twenty-one years would, for the te- 

 nant, the eflate, and the community, be more 

 eligible. 



V. Rent. Extremely high. In mofl parts 

 of the Vale much higher than even in Nor- 

 folk. There are lands under the ordinary 

 courfe of hufbandry let to farmers at thirty 

 to forty Ihilllngs an acre. In many parts of 

 the kingdom the fame lands would not 1st 

 for two-thirds of the price. 



Thefe circumflances imply a goodnefs of 

 land, and a fuperiority of m.inagement, — or 

 improvidence on the part of the renter. The 

 three may be concerned. The land is good, 

 and the management, in one particular, ex- 

 cellent ; and it is allowed, that to this piece 

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