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but others will either admit of no alteration, 

 or they will at leaft coft vafl trouble. Thus 

 every country has its advantages, and its 

 defeats : happy is he who can content him- 

 felf with his own. 



The rye grows very ill in moft of the 

 fields, which is chiefly owing to the care- 

 lefTnefs in agriculture, and to the poornefs 

 of the fields, which are feldorft or never 

 manured. After the inhabitants have con- 

 verted a tract of land into fields, which had 

 been a foreft for many centuries together, 

 and which confequently had a very fine foil, 

 they ufe it as fuch, as long as it will bear 

 any corn; and when it ceafes to bear any, they 

 turn it into paftures for the cattle, and take 

 new corn fields in another place, where a 

 fine foil can be met with, and where it has 

 never been made ufe of for this purpofe. 

 This kind of agriculture will do for fome 

 time -, but it will afterwards have bad con- 

 fequences, as every one may clearly fee. 

 A few of the inhabitants, however, treated 

 their fields a little better : the Englijh in 

 general have carried agriculture to a higher 

 degree of perfection than any other nation. 

 But the depth and richnefs of the foil, 

 which thofe found here who came ever 

 from England, (as they were preparing 

 land for ploughing which had been covered 



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