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The most desert moors in Norway and Scotland produce some sort of

pasture for cattle, of which the milk and the increase are always

more than sufficient, not only to maintain all the labour

necessary for tending them, and to pay the ordinary profit to the

farmer or the owner of the herd or flock, but to afford some

small rent to the landlord. The rent increases in proportion to

the goodness of the pasture. The same extent of ground not only

maintains a greater number of cattle, but as they are brought

within a smaller compass, less labour becomes requisite to tend

them, and to collect their produce. The landlord gains both ways;

by the increase of the produce, and by the diminution of the

labour which must be maintained out of it.