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SECT. V. LEASES. 



The great Improvements which for 70 years past have 

 rendered Norfolk, famous for its husbandry, were effected 

 by means of 21 years leases ; a circumstance which very 

 fortunately took place on tlic first attempt to break up the 

 heaths and warrens in the north-west part of the county. 

 These leases established themselves generally ; and were, 

 more than any other cause, powerfully operative in work- 

 ing those great ameliorations of wastes which converted 

 that part of the county into a garden. 



To explain generally the necessity of long leases, would 

 at this time of day be an idle disquisition. I never heard 

 any arguments against them which carried the least 

 weight. Exceptions may, and will occur : inlands which 

 are immediately around the mansion, it may be prudent 

 to grant short tenures ; and when a landlord is willing to 

 take upon liimself all those expenses which a tenant sub- 

 mits to merely because he has a term of 2 1 years, it is 

 obvious that there is no necessity for a long lease ; but, in 

 general, it may be held for sound dodlrine in Norfolk, 

 tiiat an estate can neither be improved, nor even held to 

 its former state of improvement, without long leases. 



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