TRAVELS THROUGH 

 " And they had little doubt of making 

 them anfwer yet better, by improving their 

 Summer practice, when they had got food 

 for them in that feafon to bait with in the 

 fame manner as with potatoes in the Win- 

 ter. 



" This they foon accomplished by a very 

 unexpected means : trying the effect of dif- 

 ferent manures on the light black earth, 

 that covers fo great a part of thefe moun- 

 tains, and in which all the dungs were 

 found to be equal. They tried, among other 

 things, lime, the rocks of lime-flone being 

 fpread all over the mountains at different 

 places. This they laid on for oats, rye, an-d 

 buck-wheat, after cabbages and potatoes, 

 and it did good to all ; but the great effect 

 by which it was marked, was the bringing 

 up a vaft produce of Flander's trefoil, which 

 fucceeded thofe crops. The peafants were 

 ailonifhed at this ; but rinding that it lafted 

 after the corn was carried off the' land, they 

 fed it with both meep and hogs, baiting 

 them on it in the manner ufed with clover 

 in the vale. The fheep did exceedingly 

 well on it, and the fwine of all forts per- 

 fectly fattened on it. Thus w^s difcovered 



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