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The difference /'^r cent, between them ia 

 common farms rilLs from 14 j. to 5 /. 16 ^. 

 The firft is fo fmall a variation, that it may 

 be called almoft an equality; confequently, 

 a moft beneficial farm for a gentleman. 

 This is the grafs one* 



The next approach made by the gentle- 

 man to the farmer, is in that laid down to 

 grafs, which are flrong proofs of the great 

 advantage of thefe farms to gentlemen. 

 The difference between them and the reft is 

 confiderable; they are chiefly tillage-farms. 



But in the improved cultm^e, the gentler- 

 man, upon an average, more than equals 

 the farmer, notwithftanding the charge of 

 27 per cent, upon all his labour : this lliews, 

 therefore, that gentlemen muft either f^u'm 

 upon improved principles, or be content to 

 occupy grafs-land; for although profit re- 

 mains upon the account, and that great 

 too, of feveral arable farms, yet there are 

 fuch numerous dedudions to be made from 

 them, which cannot be reduced to effim.ate, 

 that it is by no means advifeable for him 

 to confider them in the fame light. 



Vol. II. P CHAP. 



