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Rh and 3d. a day,- and a free farm in America to digging another man's potato garden in Connemara. Similar phenomena would have declared themselves under any system of land tenure, and in any country where the population had expanded in a degree disproportionate to its capacities for self-sustenation. If it were otherwise, every perpetuity in Ireland would be a land of Goshen, and Ulster a paradise where rack-rents and evictions were unknown. But it is an acknowledged fact that the low-let perpetuities of the South and West only exaggerate the worst features of the worst estates, and in Ulster, though under a more