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Suppofe a gentleman has 500 acres m 

 2 farms of a middling land that has been 

 run much out of order ; the foil flat, and 

 wet. He determines to improve it j the 

 buildings are many of them very bad' 



fome middling and a few that wants 



but little. The fences all out of order 5 

 the hedges poor — and the ditches filled up 

 -»— the land very wet, but none of it drain- 

 ed : a much greater proportion of it arable 

 than ought to be. Under thefe and other 

 circumilances he begins his undertakings a 

 year, or thereabouts, before the expiration 

 of the leafes. 



He immediately contracts with a car-« 

 penter and a mafon, to build him in a pro- 

 per fituation, a new farm-houfe of brick 



and tile to repair the two old houfes in 



a given manner, probably much reducing 

 tliem in fize. He contracts with another 

 carpenter and bricklayer to build him, to 

 the intended farm-houfe, a farm-yard with 

 barn, cow-hcufe, &c. all upon a given 

 plan 3 the foundations of brick, fuppofe 

 the fides of boards, and the coverings of 

 tile ; all particulars of the building to 



be defcribed in the contrail. He at 



the fame time contracts with one of thefe 



fets 



