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LETTER III. 



I SHALL beg your leave, in the next 

 place, to fuppofe a landlord, from the 

 preceding or other motives, to determine 

 the improvement of his eflatej in purfu- 

 ance of which he has procured a large fum 

 of money by mortgage, with which he has 

 bought ftock, ready for felling out as faft 

 as wanted. In this fituation, his firft bu- 

 fmefs muft be to gain a complete know- 

 ledge of his eftate ; for without this grand 

 preliminary, all that ought to follow would 

 be ufelefs. 



Let me here premife, that the hints 

 which I am going to offer, are addrefied in 

 particular to the perfon who plans and 

 executes the improvement : whether it be 

 the landlord himfelf, or an agent afting 

 under him. As to common ftewards, that 

 have for fome years had the management 



of the eftate : not one in ten are to be 



trufted J and this for feveral reafons. Firli, 



the 



