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the bud in a he state to receive those two 

 cropt tgtin ; as, althonj^h the lam! in ina: y 

 places p ^ nothing but wccils, tlic cattle, 

 from habit, partly live tip n thvin ; an 1, 

 browsing in the \n <iU m the day-linie, 

 ihey arc folded at night nn snxnc part of 

 those bnils which used to be icnned Ic.i 

 land in the open fields in Kngland, p-irticu- 

 larly on cl.iy 1 , where wlic.n .md \km\% 

 were the produce. Tluis the reader may 

 obacrv'c the mmle of cultivation or t ion 

 adopted in America was nearly similar to 

 tht 1 !, t 'lea 



land of the Americans laying out two years 

 instead of one ; and, from their soil ' ,; so 

 M IV thin m the first stratum, or live earth, 

 and »re, the lay- 



in*, two ycar^, with the luading of 



the cattlf, horses, and 'ome few shccp^ 

 cause it to a*.<|unc a nrmncM again : other- 

 wise, ^^crc great part of the land to be 

 d evciy year, it would be so light, 

 from the trit^trr*'« frrst and the sum- 

 mer's sun, as to bear no useful pUni » Uic 



