28 foY a Country Seat, 



have true Knowledge to order and drefs his 

 Ground, and, by purging and cleanfing the 

 fame from thole Faults that hinder their En- 

 creafe, may expeft the better Crop, if he 

 is by any means obliged to make ufe of it. 



But yet the honeft Wood-man and Planter 

 may be at a Lofs in the planting and rai- 

 fig of Timber, if his Enquiry be no deeper 

 than the outward Face of the Earth , f<^r 

 altho' every Ditcher can fpeak by Experi- 

 ence in the making a Ditch, that the Cruft or 

 good Earth many times doth lie but two or 

 three Inches deep, and the next Earth proves 

 a hard, hungry Gravel, about a Spade's Depth 

 more 5 the next Spades Depth under the Gra- 

 vel is perhaps a cold, barren Clay, and un- 

 der that fometimes there may be, tho' but 

 rare, a good Loame, or Sand, tho' this laft 

 is fo intercepted by the ether Strata of bad 

 Earthj that 'tis of little Ufe: However, this 

 oudit to induce all Gardeners and Planters 

 as well as Purchalers,. and Chafers of Scitua- 

 tions and Soils, not to be content with a 

 fuperficial View of their Lands, but to exa- 

 mine them in fcveral Places with a Spade; 

 and this ought the rather to be done, be- 

 caufe I dare affirm, that there is tio Siiperfi- 

 cies of Earthy ho'J^J foor focver it may he. hut 

 has tn its own Rovcels fometki^g or other for 

 it*s oxen Improvements An Inftance of this 

 Kind I have i^tn of a Pcrfon that digged a 

 Saw-pit, and fpreading the Stuft^ that tame 



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