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On the other hand, the landlord who enters 

 into fuch a covenant with his tenant, may rea- 

 fonably exped to have his farm re-delivered 

 upon terms equally fair and reafonable. If the 

 tenant has committed any wafte, he fhould be 

 obliged to make good all damages. Now 

 fuch mutual conditions would do away many 

 abfurd rcftridions now laid upon the te- 

 nant •, as it would be his intereft not to in- 

 jure the farm, becaufe he mud pay the 

 landlord for damage wantonly done ; and 

 the latter would have no reafon to check 

 the farmer's experiments and improvements, 

 — to the great encouragement both of inge- 

 nuity and induftry; for gentlemen's agents 

 are very apt, from over anxious care of their 

 lords' eftates, to reftri6l tenants in fuch a man- 

 ner that they are little better than an cngine- 

 horfe, who can go over only a certain circle of 

 ground. I have known an agreement made to 

 lay a certain quantity of lime on land; where, 

 if the land had been mine, I would have given 

 more money than the lime coft that it might 

 not have been laid on. Sometimes the farmer 

 is tied down (not to mention many other difad- 



vantageous 



