20 Jtlfy 1749, 



old foldiers may always be difmifled, marry, 

 and fettle in the country. The land which 

 was allotted to the foldiers about this place, 

 was very good, confiding throughout of a 

 deep mould, mixed with clay. 



July the nth. THE harrows which 

 they make ufe of here are made entirely of 

 wood, and of a triangular form. The 

 ploughs feemed to be lefs convenient. The 

 wheels upon which the plough-beam is 

 placed, are as thick as the wheels of a 

 cart, and all the wood-work is fo clumfily 

 made that it requires a horfe to draw the 

 plough along a fmooth field. 



ROCK-STONES of different forts lay fcat- 

 tered on the fields. Some were from three 

 to five feet high, and about three feet 

 broad. They were pretty much alike in 

 regard to the kind of the ftone, however, I 

 obferved three different fpecies in them. 



i. SOME confifted of a quartz, whofe 

 colour refembled fugar candy, and which 

 was mixed with a black fmall grained glim- 

 mer, a black horn-ftone, and a few minute 

 grains of a brown fpar. The quartz was 

 moft abundant in the mixture ; the glim- 

 mer was likewife in great quantity, but the 

 fpar was inconfiderable. The feveral kinds 

 of Hones were well mixed, and though the 

 eye could diftinguifh them, yet no inftru- 



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