A.GRIGULT UR: 1] gppear evident, from the fatts ftated, that the total produce of the kingdom would be greatly augmented.|

Yet it by no means follows, that it would be prudent in the owners of fuch property,.were it even at their abfolute difpofal, in every. cafe in- ftantly to abolifh intercommonage. No praétice can ever be univerfally eftablifhed, by a long con- currence in opinion of a numerous body of men, which is not grounded on reafon, and is calcu- lated for their mutual convenience, under the cir- a@umftances in which they were placed at the time when fuch prattice was eftablifhed. And although it may happen, that, by a gradual al- teration in the ftate of fociety, thofe prattices which were once falutary, may become no long- ‘er neceflary, but. pernicious; yet it will be in ge. neral found, that:when this laft comes to be in- conteftibly the cafe, the fame common fenfe which at firft concurred in eftablifhing the prac- tice, will, in like manner, at length concur in abo- lifhing it.

From this train of reafoning, room to fufpeét, that whenever a particular cuf-

there is always

‘tom is loudly: complained of by thofe who only cafually confider of it, while it is acquiefced in

«without much feeming uneafinefs by thofe who