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white peas, all which I brought with me to 

 England. I planted the red pea, but the 

 climate is not sufficiently hot to bring it to 

 perfection. 



To return to the sod. — He told nxj his 

 father embanked a large piece of meadow, 

 with an intention of warping it, in the same 

 manner as he had read the English do : but 

 the winter's frost and summer's rains had so 

 crumbled down the embankment, which 

 was by the side of a river that flowed over 

 it at times, as to prevent it being of the in- 

 tended use ; for it would not hold water : 

 and he was mixing dung with the bank, 

 to make compost of it, which answered 

 uncommonly well, so as to astonish all his 

 neighbours with the fine crops of Indian 

 corn, wheat, and clover, &c. which he had 

 raised by such process. But he had none 

 of the herd-grass : he thought, however, 

 if I went fifty miles further, I she aid find it. 

 In coming along the road, I had repeatedly 

 asked about this herd-grass: many m.en in 

 those parts called timothy by that name, and 



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