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work pays its own expence ; and the farmer 

 enters at once upon a fainfoine field without 

 any other expence, and no other trouble. 

 This I call a very eafy acquifition, and you 

 will agree with me that it is a very profit- 

 able one, when I tell you, that I have no 

 fainfoine that is not worth from 8s. to 1 2S. 

 an acre rent, if let to a tenant : I make 

 more of it by keeping it in my own hands. 



" Another fort which I have met with, 

 and improved fome of it, is the ftifF clay, 

 very wet, and very difficult to till. This, I 

 think, is much the worft of all forts of 

 wafte lands that I have yet met with. The 

 expences of managing it are very high, and, 

 when you have got it into order, it is fit 

 for nothing but wheat. I have been told, 

 that, with much dung, it is good for hemp, 

 but I never tried it; I have ufually laid it 

 down to meadow, and even in that ftate it 

 is not, by many degrees, equal to the bog. 

 I have been told that in England you value 

 it much, which appears very amazing to 

 me. 



" One grand principle which I find cf- 

 fential to the culture of moft of thefe foils, 

 is the necefllty of ample manurings. The 



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