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coming to fleece the tenants : but on the 

 contrary, when great improvements are 

 made in the farms, the bufinefs comes on 

 gradually, the minds of the neighbourhood 

 by degrees, of themfelves, look for a rife of 

 rent ; as they cannot fuppofe fuch work 

 executed merely through the landlord's love 

 and afFeciion for his tenants : in fuch a 

 fituation, the raifing an eftate 2,^ per cent. 

 would not make half the clamour that an 

 increafe of 10 would, in the fummary me- 

 thod of which I am at prefent fpeaking. 



For thefe reafons, and others too nume- 

 rous to mention here, I cannot but difap- 

 prove much of this method of raifing rents. 

 It is therefore to be confidered, in what 

 manner the work of improvements is to 

 be carried on. 



It is a principle with me, that a gentle- 

 man, when he has large undertakings of 

 this fort in his hands, fhould farm no 

 more of his land than requifite for the 

 fuperior bufinefs o^ iniproving. Occupying 

 his own land is an excellent amufemcntj 

 but I am not inventing methods for arauf- 

 jng gentlemen, but for enabling them 

 ^o increafe their fortunes, which \\\\\ never 

 pe done in a fufficient degree by farming. 



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