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LETTER XI. 



HERE is one part of improvement 

 which has been ftrangely negle6led by 

 rnany improvers ; it is that oi roads. There 

 is not a greater or heavier expence to a 

 farmer, whofe houfe, barns, and land per- 

 haps, are fome diflance from the high road, 

 than to have a bad home one. His teams 

 after a fevere journey are probably more 

 fatigued, whipped and worried in the laft 

 half mile, than in all the reft of the jour- 

 ney ; and his waggons, carts, harnefs, &c, 

 more damaged. Tenants fcarccly ever will 

 be perfuaded to lay out money which does 

 not immediately repay in fome vifible pro- 

 fit — caPii in hand j the lofs by fuch roads, 

 does not ftrike them in the fame manner ; 

 but the advantage of remedying the evil, 

 they allow at once j only think it the land- 

 lord's bufmefs and fo I would have it 



made, vy./herever fuch pieces of bye road are 

 to be found : by all means let them be 

 made (o good as not eafily to wear out in 



one 



