You will then stay a year
here together, and again have each a year in England, and so on
regularly. From the end of this two years I shall draw half the
income of this estate, and you will take the other half between
you, to invest or use as you may think fit. At the end of six years
I calculate that the estate will be stocked with as many cattle and
sheep as it can support. Fifteen thousand cattle, say, and thirty
thousand sheep. You will then sell all your annual increase, and
the profits will be greater every year. At the end of ten years
from this time, if, as I think probable, you will have had enough
of this life, we will sell the estate. By that time it will be the
center of a populous district, the land will be greatly increased
in value, and will be equal to any in the country--so much so,
indeed, that it will probably be out of the question to find a
purchaser for the whole. We could therefore break it up to suit
purchasers, dividing it into lots of one, two, three, or four
square miles, or a square league, and dividing the stock in
proportion. The house would, of course, go with the arable land and
a mile or two of pasture beyond it. My share of the yearly income I
shall devote to buying my estate. Say the price is fifty thousand
dollars.
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