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by mere measurers of land, schoolmasters, 
and broken innholders, not possessing the 
least pra6fical knowledge in the cultiva- 
tion of land. Can any thing be more ridi- 
culous than the calling a modern audfioneer 
from the pulpit inGarraway's Coffee-house, or 
from the pavement of London, to value landed 
property — Men whose habits of life could ' 
not give them any opportunity of iinder- 
■ standing any of the leading principles upon 
which their qualifications ought to be found- 
ed. The better part of such pradfitioners 
are a sort of pradfical husbandmen, who, from 
a restless disposition, negledfing their own 
original occupations, assume this office ; but 
who, from their confined situations in par- 
ticular distri61s, are^ for the most nart, des- 
titute of that general knowledge which is 
absolutely requisite for the forming a true 
estimate of the value of landed property. In 
the metropolis, valuers of land are as plen- 
tiful as death-hunters ; every upholsterer, 
feath.er-bed beater, and au61:ioneer, from 
Whitechapel to Ilyde-Park-corner, will un- 
