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gardening and hufbandry, labour under 

 many difadvantages in this country, un- 

 known on the continent, particularly in 

 the earlier part of the feafon. Not fo much 

 that the weather is more fevere, which in- 

 deed may be queftioned, but that it is more 

 changeable, and that we are lefs favoured 

 with the vifits of that refulgent luminary, 

 the firft ftimulus, the very ejfence of vege- 

 tation. 



To remedy, then, as far as may be in 

 our power, the difadvantages under which 

 we labour, let us endeavour to render the 

 climate more falubrious by the high cultiva- 

 tion of every fpot of ground, in whatever 

 way it may be employed ; which unque- 

 ftioiiably hath a good effed, and goes far 

 towards- the attainment of this defirable 

 objed. 



Draining comes firft in point. For, 

 while latent water remains in the body of 

 the foil, we may defpair of ever rendering 

 it productive, in a fuperlative degree, erf" 

 either vegetables *, grain, or timber- And 



happy 



* According to the general acceptation of the word ; 

 for vegetables embraces the whole of one of the kingdoms' 

 of nature* 



