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ufe it, they pound it in ftone mortars with 

 wooden peflles, and cleanfe it from the loofe 

 chaff by winnowing. 



Some hufbandmen, who have larger fields 

 than they choofe to cultivate, let a part of them 

 to poor people at a certain rent. Thefe te- 

 nants are riot men of fubftance enough to be 

 able to till the fields with ploughs and oxeri : 

 for which reafon they make ufe of the beck- 

 hoes, buy of others the neceffary rice-plants 

 for tranfplanting, threfh the reaped rice un- 

 der the open Jky on naked rocks and hills* 

 cleanfe it, and pay the rent to their landlords 

 With it. 



DUNG. 



In order to have a fufficient quantity of* 

 dung, where agriculture is fo extenfive, many 

 poor people get their livelihood by gathering 

 all things fit for manure ; the excrements of 

 men and beafts, in the flreets and about the 

 houfes, and likewife along the fhores of the 

 river, which they collecl: in little fampanes* 

 They fell what they have got to others, who 

 again fell it to the hufbandmen who are in 

 Want of it : and for the fame reafon they col- 



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