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in this culture, would yield as much as 700 

 in the old. This he thought very confider- 

 able ; but lohferved to him, that it feeined 

 to me to be a very inconfiderable fuperio- 

 rity, and one which muft be much more 

 than balanced by the greater trouble and 

 expences : thefe, he faid, were lefs, as there 

 was no fallow. " But there are drill- 

 ploughs and horfe-hoes," cried his wife, 

 " which have coft you more than all your 

 crops have been good for." This remark 

 made the hufband fo peevifli, that the wife 

 quitted the room ; at which I was forry ; for 

 between them I fliould probably have gained 

 the real truth. When me was gone, AT. 

 Rocquelou continued his account. It is 

 true, faid he, the inftruments with which 

 the new huibandry is carried on, are not 

 yet brought to fuch a degree of perfection, 

 as to fufTsr one to cfcape pretty confiderable 

 expences at fetting out : the inftrumcnts, I 

 do admit, have coil me large fums of money, 

 and, with other difficulties, have kept me 

 poorer than I (hould otherwife be; but, 

 when I have had more experience, this ob- 

 jection will vanifli. But, faid I, it is plain, 

 that, allow that the money you make by 



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