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enquiry I found that the improvement had been 

 begun by my friend's father about twenty years be- 

 fore, and has from time to time been extended 

 both by father and fon : — That the average price 

 of each acre, when cut at fourteen years' growth, 

 was 70L though the boggy part, before this mode 

 of cultivation, was not worth a farthing. From 

 the ftocks or (lumps when cut, a larger crop ac- 

 crues the next fourteen years, and fo on perhaps 

 for more than a century. After each cutting it h 

 proper to cover, or rather to earth up, the old 

 flocks with the mould that may have fallen from 

 the fides of the beds Into the ditches. The ufual 

 price of planting and fencing with quickfets is not 

 more than 8 or 9I. per acre. The plantation was 

 thus begun: — As the hill was to be drained, a line 

 in the dire6lion of the hill was drawn from the top 

 to the bottom of the ground intended to be planted; 

 the afh-plants of three years old, having their tops 

 and roots fo cut as not to exceed eight or nine 

 inches in length, were laid horizontally on the 

 ground at the diftance of three feet and a half, the 

 top part of each plant projeding about half an inch 

 beyond the line : then the labourer, beginning at the 

 lower end of the plantation, that the water, may drain 

 off as he goes on, and {landing with his back to 

 the hill, with his fpade digs the earth from the 



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