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 the immenfe expences. There is a very 

 falfe idea current, that rents are doubled 

 by inclofing; a meafure may be vaftly ad- 

 vantageous without pofTeffing fuch uncom- 

 mon merit. This notion hurries numbers 

 to inclofing, who afterwards find the exr 

 pences to run away with great part of the 

 profit. But even where the expences do 

 not exceed the profit, it is very often the 

 cafe, that the proprietor is not repaid in 

 fix or feven years, perhaps more ; and 

 when it is confidcred, how little able fome 

 proprietors, even in good circmnftances, are 

 to wait fo long before they are reimburfed 

 their expences; how often they arc difabled 

 (by advancing their proportions ncceflary 

 for an inclofure) to provide for the fettle- 

 men t of their children in the world, how 

 often they are prevented cultivating their 

 new inclofure to any advantage, by being 



drained of their ready money 1 think it 



will inconteftibly appear, that the advan- 

 tages refulting from this extravagant me- 

 thod, are trivial to the majority of pro- 

 prietors, in comparifon to what they might 

 reafonably have expected, from a more 

 equal management. 



You will not think this furprizing, when 

 you are informed the immediate rife of 

 rent in many inclofures in this neighbour- 

 1, has not amounted to above five or 



fix 



