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When those three different sorts of revenue belong to different

persons, they are readily distinguished; but when they belong to

the same, they are sometimes confounded with one another, at

least in common language.

A gentleman who farms a part of his own estate, after paying the

expense of cultivation, should gain both the rent of the landlord

and the profit of the farmer. He is apt to denominate, however,

his whole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at

least in common language. The greater part of our North American

and West Indian planters are in this situation. They farm, the

greater part of them, their own estates: and accordingly we

seldom hear of the rent of a plantation, but frequently of its

profit.