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 our pockets. This was a plentiful in- 

 come in fo remote a place, where every 

 tiling was cheap, and where no expences 

 could well be indulged, but thofe of necef- 

 faries. But I had fuch reafon for fufpecl- 

 ing mankind of villainy or folly, that I had 

 long determined to truft no fecurity with 

 iny money ^ it, therefore, yielded no income. 

 This was a fufHcient inducement to under- 

 take the great woik of improvement. I 

 liad, in conducting, for feveral years, a 

 plantation in the Wed Indies, gained fuch 

 ageneral knowledge of agriculture, as enabled 

 me to enter rationally into the practice of it 

 in France ; for I have obfervedrthe great prin- 

 ciples of it are the fame in all climates. This 

 ne.c.effity of employing my 5, cod. in fome- 

 thing that yields a revenue, was an infliga- 

 tion fo powerful, that there was no doubt 

 c>f our trying the experiment. We farmed 

 far three ar four years in the common ftile 

 ef the country, under the inductions of the 

 jpeafants ; but, notwithstanding both our 

 attentions to render the bufmefs profitable, 

 we found we loft money every day. This 

 much chagrined us. Upon obfervation, we 

 found, that our expences in labour fo much 



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