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cult in hedging and ditching r in the mak- 

 ing a i"ad, or ine digging a pond? do 

 not three fourths of the country gentle- 

 men lay down arable to grafs, at various 

 timc^ upon their own farms? If all fuch 

 operdtions were at once to be executed by 



labourers paid by the day certainly a 



good overfccr or two would be highly re- 

 quifite, though perhaps difficult to get— — 

 but when nineteen parts of twenty of tlie 

 whole would be performed by meafure — 

 where is the difficulty of the work ? I will 

 venture to affert it to be extremely trif- 

 ling. 



But granting there would be much dif- 

 culty in the undertaking to gentlemen who 

 wanted activity — fure it would be no fuch 

 impoffible matter, to commit the under- 

 taking to the management of another. To 

 fome perfon of knowledge and a6livity, 

 who v/ould conduft the whole bufmefs, 

 and be paid merely by fo much per cenf» 

 on the improvement — that is, on the clear 

 profit of the undertaking. Such a method 

 of paying him would infure the utmofl vi- 

 gour and attention, for if there was no 

 profit to the landlord, there would be none 

 to him— and in proportion to the increal'e 



of 



