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fortnight more the fecond hoeing, to fet them ont 

 at fix inches fquare, will follow, and a fecond har- 

 rowing; the third, if at all neceflary, juft as the 

 Hate of the foil and growth of weeds may require j 

 for as to the carrots, their nourifhment is drawn 

 from a bed fo much deeper than that of weeds, as 

 not to be at all injured in their progrefs, though 

 difgraced in their appearance, by fuch company. 



Such are my trivial attempts, on a few acres in 

 agriculture: — To the adventurers in it, on a large 

 Jcaky I look up with fomewhat of veneration, as 

 the befl fubjeds of the ftate, and the firfl friends 

 of man; but which, in this kingdom, as the fource 

 of all permanent manufadlure, and fair commerce, 

 inftead of receiving every political encouragement, 

 is burthened with every opprelTion that the fpirit 

 of monopoly can devife, the cunning of trade de- 

 mand, and the interefl of corruption fupport; and 

 confequently the large capitals feduced into every 

 Ipeculation and purfuit, except that which pro- 

 mifes an ampler and furer, though flower return, 

 and far more congenial with that habit of patient 

 induftry, and exad ceconomy, to which alone 

 wealth yZ^ow/^ appertain, — theperfeoi cultivation of our 

 foil, — A fourth, probably, of this Ifland is nearly 

 wafte; wanting only an encouraged cultivation to 

 iSbrd employment and comfort to that numerous 



poor,. 



