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worth fome enquiry to difcover the means of 

 doing it : But fuch an important part of the 

 domeflic ceconomy of a great nation re- 

 quires a more minute attention than the 

 compafs of thefe papers will allow me. 

 However, I mall mention one or two par- 

 ticulars, which are peculiarly connected 

 with the minutes of this journey. 



The proper rank of people to be addreffed 

 on fuch a fubjedt is the landlords : It is they 

 alone who can effect improvements - 3 and 

 one method I mail venture to recommend, 



is that of RAISING RENTS. 



I have more than once heard fome of the 

 nobility and gentry, of great landed property, 

 fpeak with pleafure of their rents not having 

 been railed for many years ; confidering it 

 as a point of their magnificence to live in 

 the midfc of tenants who are fo greatly 

 favoured. There cannot be an idea more 

 pernicious to the public good. I know not 

 an inftance of rent being very low, and huf- 

 bandry at the fame time being good. 

 Wherever fuch inftances are to be found, 

 we may be certain the farmer, in fome way 

 or other, pays a real rent, though not a no- 

 minal one ; in marling, incloiing, or fome 

 expenfive improvement. But innumerable 

 are the inftances of farmers living wretch- 

 edly, and even breaking, on farms at very 

 low rents 5 and fucceeded by others on the 



fame 



