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LETTER VII; 



TTAVING touched upon the different 

 circumriances that (liould principally 

 be attended to in the arrangement of the 

 fields, and in the buildings requifite for 

 the farms, I fliall in the next place ven- 

 ture to offer a few hints on the important 

 bufmefs of bringing the fences into repair: 

 according to the cuftoms moft common in 

 England^ every reparation of fences, ex- 

 cept gates, poffs, rails, bridges, ZSc. are 

 done by tlie tenant j but we know fo well 

 how they in general do them, through 

 poverty, that to an improver of any fpirit, 

 it is abfolutely neceffary to take the bufi- 

 nefs out of their hands at the expiration of 

 a leafe. The gentleman in this, as in mofi: 

 other inffances, dees nothing but what an 

 excellent tenant, with a good deal of money 

 in his pocket, and a long leafe, would do 

 for himfclf: and this criterion of his 

 works, will, in moil cafes, fliew the cer- 

 tainty of his proiit j for if it is poilib.le (and 



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