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thrive in lands where the latter will not, or, at leafl, 

 it grows fo weak and thin, as to be eafily over- run 

 with weeds, or dried up by the heat of the fun; it 

 has therefore been found neceflary, in diftridls where 

 the land is not good, (which is nioft comnnonly the 

 greater part) to leave the beft for hay, and to put 

 the corn into that which is but indifferent, or even 

 in the word of all -, and though they cannot expeft 

 very great crops, yet they reap fomething. 



If there are fome diftrids of very poor lands, al- 

 moft entirely fown with corn, they are not poor, be- 

 caufe they produce only corn, but becaufe they arc 

 not fit to produce any thing elfe. Their foil is fo 

 bad, that they can grow but very litde fodder, con- 

 fequently they maintain only fuch cattle as are 

 abfolutely necefTary for labour, and thofe are ill fed, 

 and frequently perifh. They have but little ma- 

 nure, and their crops are fmall j for large crops of 

 all forts can only be expedled from lands naturally 

 rich, or ftrongly manured. Thus the poverty of 

 the inhabitants is only owing to their pofTefiing an 

 ungrateful foil. 



What proves evidently it is the natural foil that 

 is in fault, and not the corn which impoverilhes it, 

 is, that where there is meadow and arable land, the 



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