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TILLAGE. 



WE find, that, even in Paradise, man had 

 employment appointed him; the object of 

 which was, to aid nature in the production of 

 .food for his subsistence. It is true, that the va- 

 rieties of the earth's provision were designed by 

 the Almighty, without any of our contrivance, 

 and that these have always grown in a way 

 that the understanding of man has not been 

 able even to comprehend. But, ignorant as we 

 are, and vain as would be our attempt to inter- 

 fere with the designing part of creation, we can 

 do much by observation, and the exercise of 

 our reasoning and bodily powers : marking what 

 circumstances of an external kind have an 

 influence upon these things ; what is favoura- 



