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 for another ? He replied, yes j but, let 

 any improvements turn out ever fo profit- 

 able, ftill, if money did not abound in the 

 improver's hands, the work would not go 

 on with fpirit. The following are the heads 

 of his account of the uncultivated trades in 

 this and the neighbouring provinces : 



They are generally either dry {tony 

 heaths, or wet bogs and marfhes ; the for- 

 mer are not all paftured, even with fheep, 

 though every part of them would maintain 

 flocks for fome months of the year very 

 well 5 the latter are peat grounds, applied 

 to no kind of ufe, except yielding firing in 

 the parts neareft to the villages ; but this in 

 but fmall quantities, compared with the 

 general extent. Of the former land he has 

 tried very many experiments. In fome 

 pieces, he has ploughed and improved, but 

 has found, that, in the corn culture, it is 

 of very little value ; a few oats, and a little 

 rye, the crops very fmall, is all it will yield; 

 but in fainfoine he finds it uniformly ad- 

 vantageous. For feveral years he has not 

 once failed in the culture of that grafs upon 

 it. His crops have amounted to two loads 

 of hny an acre for feveral years running, 



when 



