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the improvement will be a great addition 

 to his bufmers and trouble ; and confe- 

 quently he will have no good heart to it. 

 — Secondly, not manv common Rewards 

 are fuch as to allow in prudence the truil- 

 ing them fo much as would be neceirary, 

 if the mafrer happened to be ignorant him- 



felf. Thirdly, frewards who have been 



fome years on an cftate, are too much con» 

 ne61ed with tlic tenants, for the execution 

 with due fpirit of fuch improvements as I 

 am going to recommend. 



For thefe reafons, I fliould advife a land- 

 lord by all means to get acquainted with 

 country bufmefs himfelf, at leafc to a de- 

 gree fufficient to dictate in material points 

 pofitively to thofe under him, and to ad- 

 mit of no excufes for non-compliance ■ 



or a dilatory execution : but if he is igno- 

 rant and remains fo, I would advife that 

 he employs fome perfon of acknowledged 

 ablhties to undertake the improvement : 

 fome penetrating, fkilful cultivator, that 

 would be to his hufbandry (the range of 

 utility) what a Mr. Bro^n^n is, in that of 

 eleirance. — — But in what hands foever 

 the work be placed, I venture the follow- 



ing 



