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thoufand fuch acres that do not bring more 

 than 6 s, or 7 5. 



/. s. d, 

 '500 acres at 8 j. - - 200 o o 

 Intereft of 2200/. at /^percent, 88 o o 



288 o o 



This fum IS the total of the landlord's 

 expence at the conclufion of his improve- 

 ment. The old rent muft be reckoned, 

 becaufe it is in fact a part of his expence : 

 it may be called his original ftock in 

 trade. 



To flate the rife progreiTively, to fliew 

 the extreme profit of fuch improvements, 



Suppofe the rife of rent, 3J-. 6d. 

 per acre, the rent will be, £.2^^ o o 



Here we at once find, that an improver 

 who undertakes fuch works as thefe I am 

 at prefent recom.mending, whatever his 

 profit may be, is yet under an abfolute 

 moral certainty of not Icfmg by his under- 

 taking. Since the fmall rife of 35. 6 J. 

 per acre repays him the intereft of all the 

 money he expends in thefe various im- 

 provements : it is true, they are only fup- 



pofitions i 



