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there commerce 'and the arts flourifh. And 

 it is equally oblcrvable in Rural Economy, 

 that where independency refides, there agri- 

 Cidture improves. A man cultivating his 

 own eftate enjoys the higheft degree of 

 independency ; a leafe-tenant the next j 

 tenants at will the loweft. 



It has already been intimated, that in this 

 Diftridt tenants at will (fome very few per- 

 haps excepted) have loft all confidence, and 

 confequently have loft even their ideal in- 

 dependency. They dare not improve left unfair 

 advantage flioiild be taken cf their improve- 

 ments. It has alfo been laid that leafes arc 

 yet but little in ufc. 



Therefore, among the yeomanry alone 

 we muft look for that degree of indepen- 

 dency which is effentially neccHary to im- 

 provements in agriculture. 



No couniry of equal extent can boaft offo 

 numerous a body of yeomanry as the Vale 

 liiidcr furvcy ; noranv country, I will venture 

 t3 arnrm, where induftry and economy are 

 more confpicuous ; or where a perfonal in- 

 dependency is fo ftrongly rooted among 

 men in middle life. 



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