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When the materials of lodging are so superabundant, the part made

use of is worth only the labour and expense of fitting it for

that use. It affords no rent to the landlord, who generally

grants the use of it to whoever takes the trouble of asking it.

The demand of wealthier nations, however, sometimes enables him

to get a rent for it. The paving of the streets of London has

enabled the owners of some barren rocks on the coast of Scotland

to draw a rent from what never afforded any before. The woods of

Norway, and of the coasts of the Baltic, find a market in many

parts of Great Britain, which they could not find at home, and

thereby afford some rent to their proprietors.