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The Capital pars 14 /. 8 j". per cent. 

 which profit is very confiderable upon a 

 farm wherein the tenant is at all the cxpence 

 of inclofmg, building, manuring, &c. &;c. 

 in fhort, of converting a mere wafte into 

 a well-cultivated farm; nor can I omit 

 remarking, that this profit is a very great 

 encouragement to all v/ho have any 

 thouglits of hiring fuch lands; for many 

 circumftances recommend them, in a good 

 itieafure, in preference to thofe that are 

 already cultivated. Thefe lands are, in 

 their nature, perfectly compad: : there are 

 very feldom any roads or paths through 

 them. Tenants, when at fuch expences as 

 Here fuppofed, are tied to the obfervance 

 of no rules or modes of cultivation, which 

 indeed would be highly ridiculous upon 

 fuch foils. And laftly, very long leafes are 

 always granted ; for no man in his fenfes 

 would be at fuch vafl: expences, which con- 

 vert walles and wilds into well-cultivated 

 countries, unleis he was fure of a term 

 long enough to rcimburfe him. No land- 

 lord, I think, could refufe a leafe of 30 or 

 40 years; 42 is not an uncommon term 

 in fome countries, where impTovements arc 

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