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are: but where the foil is of fuch a quality 

 that by the ingenuity an4 induftry of man it 

 will produce from lo/. to 20/. per acre, and 

 employ from four to fix people (men, women 

 and children) in cultivating every twenty acres; 

 ihere is great lofs both individually and to the 

 public if the land is let in fuch a manner that 

 one man and his. family manage two hundred 

 acres ; wnicn they may eafily do if ic be left in 

 grafs. But if the land-owner became fenfible 

 of its real value, and raifcrdi the rent ; it would^ 

 foon give employment to more people, and 

 produce abundant crops. The price of land, 

 as of all other things, would find its level; 

 and gentlemen who happen to- poiTefs thefe 

 eftatcs mig-hc confider themfdves as fortunate 

 as if actually in pofFefHon of a gold mine. Ac 

 prefent rent may he from 15J. to i/. 5^. per 

 acre, and according to the common manage- 

 ment, great enough. The tenant, if he makes- 

 from 2/. to 3/. per acre, is content ; and from 

 fuch produce is no great gainer. Were the 

 farmers in Eaft Lothian in Scotland to manage 

 their land in this way — one cow to four acrear 

 of land^ two ewes and lambs to an acre — there 



would 



