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 Land, the demand of rent for, how founded, i. 101; the rent paid, enters into the price of the greater part of all commodities, 102; generally produces more food than will maintain the labor necessary to bring it to market, 230; good roads, and navigable canals, equalize difference of situation, 231; that employed in raising food for men or cattle, regulates the rent of all other cultivated land, 237, 246; can clothe and lodge more than it can feed, while uncultivated, and the contrary, when improved, 250; the culture of land producing food, creates a demand for the produce of other lands, 267; produces by agriculture a much greater quantity of vegetable than of animal food, 285; the full improvement of, requires a stock of cattle to supply manure, 329; cause and effect of the diminution of cottagers, 336; signs of the land being completely improved, 339; the whole annual produce, or the price of it, naturally divides itself into rent, wages and profits of stock, 369.—The usual price of, depends on the common rate of interest for money, ii. 44; the profits of cultivation exaggerated by projectors, 66; the cultivation of, naturally preferred to trade and manufactures, on equal terms, 70; artificers necessary to the cultivation of, 71; was all appropriated, though not cultivated, by the northern destroyers of the Roman empire, 75; origin of the law of primogeniture under the feudal government, 76; entails, 77; obstacles to the improvement of land under feudal proprietors, 78–79; feudal tenures, 83; feudal taxation, 88; the improvement of land checked in France by the taille, ibid.; occupiers of, labor under great disadvantages, 89; origin of long leases of, 115; small proprietors, the best improvers of, 118; small purchasers of, cannot hope to raise fortunes by cultivation, ibid.; tenures of, in the British American colonies, 320.—Is the most permanent source of revenue, iii. 218–219; the rent of a whole country, not equal to the ordinary levy upon the people, 220; the revenue from, proportioned, not to the rent, but to the produce, 223; reasons for selling the crown lands, 224; the land lax of Great Britain considered, 228; an improved land tax suggested, 232; a laud tax, however equally rated by a general survey, will soon become unequal, 239; tithes a very unequal tax, 241; tithes discourage improvement, 242.

Landholders, why frequently inattentive to their own particular interests, i. 370.—How they contribute to the annual production of the land, according to the French agricultural system of political economy, iii. 10; should be encouraged to cultivate a part of their own land, 234.

Latin language, how it became an essential part of university education, iii. 144.

Law, the language of, how corrupted, iii. 83; did not improve into a science in ancient Greece, 158; remarks on the courts of justice in Greece and Rome, ibid.

Law, Mr., account of his banking scheme for the improvement of Scotland, i. 440–441.