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would be no paying the landlord 4/. per acre, 

 though grain be there fold cheaper by 4^. per 

 quarter. They have indeed five roods to an 

 acre, labour is lower, and they pay no poor- 

 rates ; as the poor in general work for their 

 fiving. Were good land fcarce in England, a 

 plot of it would be more highly valued, lit 

 Aberdeenfhire, in Scotland, there is land let at 

 from 3/. to 8/. per acre. The produce there- 

 of is not more nor fo much as that of a great 

 many lands in England would be, were they 

 cultivated in the fame manner, and with equal 

 induftry. If the crops raifed by improving 

 fuch lands only maintained the poor without 

 the prefent abfurd poor-laws, it would fave an 

 iinmenfe fum of money novv fquandered on re- 

 movals, lawyers' fees, dodtors' bills, expcnces 

 of officers, and now and then a good feaft^ 

 which, in fome parifhes fwallow up one half of 

 the contributions levied on the inhabitants for 

 the fupport of the poor. Where is; the evil 

 then to the farmer if he gives his landlord 4/. 

 per acre for land, and makes 20/, of it ? He is 

 as well off as the man that gives 2/. and makes 

 •yL per acre 5 and he is relieved from th^ heavy 



burthens 



