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worth describing. A few of the swing or 

 Rotherham ploughs are used, which cost 

 four dollars for the wood-v/ork. 



Their harrows, which arc made in a tri- 

 angular form, with a pair of stilts behind, 

 as a plough, do their work well, and 1 think 

 them worthy attention. The man who 

 follows the harrow takes equal pains to 

 direct it as the plough. These harrows 

 answer very well among stumps of trees, 

 &c. They generally leave their land in a 

 rough manner after sowing, compared to 

 what we do in England ; and, although 

 I disapproved of it much at first, I do not 

 know but it may be proper and necessary 

 there : for, in many situations, were they to 

 pulverise it, and make it so fine as we are 

 wont to do, the heavy rains would carry 

 great part of the soil away, from its light- 

 ness; and where it is of a clayey nature, it 

 w^ould be like a floor. In some of my lands, 

 which I made fine mould, I found the whole 

 of the soil to move, for an acre together, 

 when a heavy rain fell, from the current in 



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