, it 



kept a« one of the necetftarics of life, tiie 

 umc as a garden in F.: 



Down on ihc Ea#tcm -*» re, there b a 

 ▼try large tract of Lnd^ ^ incniioncdy 



firom which ibc inhabitants obtain all or 

 II c ^ :l of ihtir coffee, lea, sugar, 



salt, &c« with their own and their negroes* 

 ing. 



It was a general repon that the people 

 of this tract exp. ccd a faihirc in the 

 v.hcai-crops, owing, a.s i- saiJ, to the Hes- 

 rian fly ; but rather, in my cj inion. to the 

 poverty oi the soil ; and how can it be 

 C'llicrwise, lince the gretter part of ilie land 

 has borne wheat and ( ihcr corn ever siace 

 it WIS rlcarrd, niu! w.is nrvrr dunged? 

 Aiui.it 15 not the iauit ol ilic ta in lay* 



ing t?!r dung ui>on thr land, but the light 

 produce which make* a dunghill suP' ' it 

 only ^o rnvrr n vcry Small ipaee eveiy yt... , 



SOtlut ll ' iially in ad 



state. Vrrs^'^ 'his cause, those farmers \^v.v 

 regti two i behind-lund in their 



pymcots to the store-keepers : and it seems 



