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lofs. There are many low lands in the 

 rivers that are under the plough : they af- 

 fured me that thefe yielded, of wheat, four 

 quarters and an half per acre ; after the 

 wheat, they are fovvn with barley, and pro- 

 duce five quarters, and then with oats, of 

 which they yield from four to five quarters, 

 and fometimes fix, yet are not thefe lields 

 ever dunged. The foil is a remarkable one, 

 It is a loam, and to appearance wet, yet 

 dries fo quickly, that water never proves of 

 any prejudice to the crop. In a few inclo- 

 fures, which, however, are not numerous, 

 they pofitively aflerted, that fome farmers 

 had fown wheat five years running, and 

 gained the following crops : the firft year, 

 five quarters -, the fecond, four ; the third, 

 four ; the fourth, three ; and the fifth, 

 three: then barley three years, 1 each crop 

 three quarters and an half an acre ; then 

 three years of oats, each year's produce four 

 quarters 3 and all this without one fallow. 

 I exprefled my aftonifhment at this, and 

 demanded by what management fueh a con- 

 flant fucceffion of great crops were gained j 

 they allured me, that the great means of 

 procuring them, was the ufe of a double 



plough. 



