So September 1748. 



ed by the inhabitants of the country. When a 

 corn-field has been obliged to bear the fame kind 

 of corn for three years together, it does not after 

 that, produce any thing at all, if it be not well ma- 

 nured, or fallowed for fbme years. Manure is 

 very difficult to be got, and therefore people ra- 

 ther leave the field uncultivated. In that interval 

 it is covered with all forts of plants and trees ; 

 and the countryman, in the mean while, culti- 

 vates a piece of ground which has till then been 

 fallow, or he chufes a part of the ground which 

 has never been ploughed before, and he can in 

 both cafes be pretty fure of a plentiful crop. This 

 method can here be ufed with great convenience. 

 For the foil is loofe, fo that it can eafily be 

 ploughed, and every countryman has commonly 

 a great deal of land for his property. The cattle 

 here are neither houfed in winter, nor tended in 

 the fields, and for this reafon they cannot gather 

 a fufiicient quantity of dung. 



THE cattle were originally brought from Eu- 

 rope. The natives have never had any, and, at 

 prefent, few of them care to get any. But the 

 cattle degenerate by degrees here, and become 

 fmaller. For the cows, horfes, (heep, and hogs, 

 are all larger in England, though thofe which are 

 brought over are of that breed. But the firft 

 generation decreafes a little, and the third and 

 fourth is of the fame fize with the cattle already 

 common here. The climate, the foil, and the 

 food, altogether contribute their mare towards 

 producing this change. 



IT is remarkable that the inhabitants of the 

 country., commonly fooner acquire underftanding, 



but 



