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from fprings. . Adjoining this there is a 

 wood of about an hundred acres, but no- 

 thing can be poorer than the growth, which 

 Jiad always been browfed by fheep and 

 cattle, as the only winter-food on the 

 whole eftate. The fifty acres firft inclofed 

 were all the white land, and the inclofure 

 confifted only of a good ditch and a bank, 

 though he has fince fown the feed of the 

 furze on the bank, which has made a good 

 hedge. At the fame time that this was 

 done, he turned a flock of four hundred 

 fheep, fuch as are common on the heaths 

 of this province. As to the farm, he pur- 

 chafed ten working oxen, a horfe, three or 

 four cows, and a few young cattle, befides 

 half a dozen hogs. Having grubbed up the 

 wild produce, and flacked it in his yard for 

 winter firing, he ploughed the field, and 

 fowed oats upon it ; the crop very poor, he 

 thinks about two quarters an acre; yet it 

 was of great fervice to him in the following 

 winter, by partly fupporting his cattle with 

 flraw. The next year he made another 

 inclofure of twenty acres, fowed it alfo 

 with oats, and the former one with buck 

 wheat ; the oats were much fuch a crop as 



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