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the evil— but it would anfwer greatly to 

 any to recompence their landlord for it. 



If marie, chalk, clay, limeftone (un- 

 known or not ufed, &c.) be under the 

 fields, and of a nature to improve them in 

 a great and lafling manner, and the te- 

 nants have omitted to make ufe of them ; 

 then the landlord lliould execute fuch un- 

 dertakings, paying himfelf in rent a 

 fufficient intereft for his money. 



I fliall not multiply fuppofitions 5 but 

 an attentive view of thefe and other parti- 

 culars, will fhew a landlord at once, whe- 

 ther his farms are improvable or not. If 

 he finds thefe matters out of order— or de- 

 ficient, there can be nothing plainer than 

 the undoubted profitof remedying them: in 

 many cafes, the grand profit is to the 

 tenant, who ought to improve thefe ob- 

 jects ; but mofl: tenants being poor— -of 

 contradled views— and jealous of laying 

 out money which will not immediatfly 

 come in with ce?2t. per cent, profit — eftates 

 would remain for ever in diforder before 

 they would improve. The landlord fliould 

 therefore interfere, and laying out the 

 money, repay himfelf in rent, by which 

 means he takes that profit which the tenant 

 lofes. An 



