1822 Novr. 15. Tripoli. Securities against Misrule. Preliminary Explanations

Ch Bashaw's Inducements 2. Extra-regarding

1. In regard to land, improvements having land for their immediate subject

matter, will apply either to the surface or to the interior.

Improvements applying to the surface will apply either to the soil itself, or to

its boundaries, or to its means of communication.

Improvements applying to the soil itself will consist either of the addition of

manures, or of the addition or subtraction of water.

Manures are either texture-improving manures, or aliment-supplying - say in one

word alimentary manures.

Improvements having respect to water operate either by the exclusion

/subtraction/ of it when in too great quantity, that is to say, by drainage, or

by occasional addition to it, that is to say by irrigation.

Boundaries are either 1st. for mere demarcation, i.e. showing where property

ends, or for exclusion of objects the entrance of which would produce annoyance.

These are - 1. high winds, i.e. air when in a certain degree of agitation: 2.

animals wild or tame: 3. human beings, at whose hands depredation, destruction

or deterioration are apprehended. Boundaries having any such exclusion for their

object are stiled fences.

In bringing to view improvement in these its several shapes, the object is, to

render it manifest that saving exceptions to a very inconsiderable amount,

improvement can not be made without an expenditure of capital: of capital mostly

to such an amount as to require several years of successful labour for the

reimbursement of it, with the addition of adequate profit correspondent to the

degree of retardation and hazard. 2. Now