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 Article XLIX. 

 A De/criptlon of the RuJJtan Ploughs. 

 [By Dr. Grievh, late Phyfician to the Ruffian army.] 

 Sir, 



ON my road from Peterfburgh to Riga, I faw 

 at Cuicatz a number of peafants tilling the 

 ground with their fmall fingle-horfe ploughs. 

 Thefe inftruments of tillage, which would excite 

 the derifion of an Engliih farmer, are ufed all over 

 Ruilla. They are very fimple, and confid only of 

 two poles or ftiafts, to which the horfc is harnefled, 

 and which extend backward, behind him, between 

 three and four feet. To this end is fixed a crofs 

 bar, by which the peafant holds and directs it. 

 About fix inches forward from his hold, there runs 

 down, in an oblique direction to the earth, a 

 Wronger piece of wood, which is divided into two 

 points at the lower end ; thefe two points form two 

 focks, and are fliod with iron. They are two 

 inches diftant from each other, and gently curved 

 towards the horfe. From a rope joining the two 

 upper fliafts, runs down a fmall flick ihod with 

 iron, and fo formed as to grafp one or other of the 

 focks, being tied in fuch a manner that the peafant 

 can move it from the one to the other at pleafurc. 

 This 1 call the turn glebe, as it turns the earth to 



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