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had any knowledge, in every mode of cul- 

 ture that had any probability of fucceeding, 

 whether it was with a view of making corn 

 fields, grafTes, natural and artificial, vines, 

 mulberries, hemp, flax, and, in a word, 

 any other plant they thought of ; that they 

 were to receive regular payments every half- 

 year, which they were to expend with this 

 view, and that an allowance would be an- 

 nually paid them for their trouble, propor- 

 tioned to the induflry and attention with 

 which they executed the truft ; that they 

 were to give in annually a table of their ex- 

 pences, of whatever kind, and mew their 

 fields and improvements of whatever kind 

 to the truftees, whenever any of them at- 

 tended, adding fuch other particulars and 

 limitations as the truftees had agreed upon. 

 " Three peafants, with their families, 

 were fixed, upon thefe terms, in the lands 

 in queftion : their firft work was to add to 

 the old houfe fufficient to make it contain 

 their families ; they then inclofed four or 

 five fields, of a fmall compafs adjoining, 

 with the common thorn of the country; 

 but the coldnefs of the fituation was fuch, 

 that all failed : upon which they tried elm, 



beech, 



