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(4, Page 48.) Tue Reader will here advert to the difference between the law of primogeniture, and the law of entail, which, by appropriating the whole property unalienably to one, is produc- tive of the moft deftruétive confequences to.a fociety of men who are engaged in projects of indultry.

(4, Page 65.) I know no exception to this rule; unlefs the fol- lowing practice, which the beneficence of Mr. George Dempiter, {o well known in this country, fuggefted to him, be confidered as an exception. In an eftate in one of the highland counties of Scotland, that lately came into his poffeflion, and on which, as is ufual in thofe diftri€ts, there was much uncultivated land, and many perfons who had little employment; he, with a view to en- courage fome induftrious exertions on their part, agreed to give full permiflion to each perfon, who fhould fettle on any of the wafte lands belonging to him, for a cow to go on thefe; and alfo to cut fuel in his moffes, and to cultivate as much of the land«as they fhould think proper; giving them a perfect fecurity of poffef- fion, free from rent, during the natural life of the original fettler; and, on the demife of the firft fettler, a continuation of pofleffion by his heirs for years more, at a rent to be fixed by two neu- tral perfons to be mutually chofen by the parties; with fome other fmall bounties, unneceffary to be here fpecified: and he has now the fatisfaction of feeing a great many{mall patches of land

cultivated along the wafte and more coming gradually into cul-

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