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between the rows -, as foon as the plants 

 are come up, the field is laid under water. 

 This not only greatly forwards the growth 

 of the rice, but likewife kills all weeds, fo 

 .as to render weeding unnecefTary. The flraw 

 of rice is faid to be excellent food for cat- 

 tle, who eat it very greedily. Rice requires 

 a hot climate, and therefore it will not 

 fucceed well in Virginia, the fummer there 

 being too fhort, and the winter too cold -, 

 and much lefs will it grow in Penjylvania, 

 They are as yet ignorant in Carolina of the 

 art of making arrack from rice : it is chief- 

 ly South Carolina that produces the greateft 

 quantity of rice; and on the other hand 

 they make the moft tar in North Carolina. 

 November the 7th. The ftranger from 

 Carolina whom I have mentioned before, 

 had met with many oyfter (hells at the bot- 

 tom of a well, feventy Englim miles dis- 

 tant from the fea, and four from a river : 

 they lay in a depth of fourteen Englim feet 

 from the furface of the earth : the water in 

 the well was brackifh ; but that in the river 

 was frefh. The fame man, had at the 

 building of a faw-mill, a mile and a half 

 from a river, found, firft fand, and then 

 clay filled with oyfter fhells. Under thefe 

 he found feverai bills of fea birds as he call- 

 ed them, which were already quite petri- 

 fied : they were probably Gloffbpetrce. 



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