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feme laod fet with potatoes more than two years 

 at the longed. Wheo raifed from the feed, great 

 varieties, and fome excellent new kinds, will b^ 

 obtained* 



I ^m, your's, &c. 



T. PAVIER. 



Moncktorii near l^am^ton, 

 March i, 1779. 



Article IX. 

 State of Agriculture in the IJle of Wight. 



[Communicated by a Gentleman who lately vilited that Ifland.] 



Gentlemen, 



TTAVINQ lately been in the Ifle of Wight, 

 principally with 4 view to obtain fome au- 

 thentic information relative to the mode of huf- 

 bandry and produce of that ifland, I have fele6led 

 the following remarks from notes taken on the fpot, 

 and beg leave to prefent them to your Society.— 

 1 fhall firft notice 



fk€ Nature of its Soil. 



This ifland is finely divcrfified with ^ntly rifing 

 hills, and fertile well-watered valleys. The hills, 



being 



