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Life of Johnson, Volume 5

Note 699 — FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24.

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'The payment of rent in kind has been so long disused in England that it is totally forgotten. It was practised very lately in the Hebrides, and probably still continues, not only in St. Kilda, where money is not yet known, but in others of the smaller and remoter islands.' Johnson's Works, ix. 110.

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