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and trenching, to render it profitable. Properly pulve- 

 rized and manured, it becomes very productive, and may be 

 said to be inexhaustible". 



J?AGE 206. 



<" It is remarkable, however, that the same degree of 

 ploughing or pulverization, which is absolutely necessary 

 to render stiff and clayey lands productive, is here not 

 only unnecessary but hurtful ; for though this soil is deep, 

 it is at the same time far from being heavy, and it is 

 naturally dry. As, therefore, too much exposure to the scorch- 

 ing influence of a tropical sun destroys its fertility, the system 

 of husbandry on sugar plantations, in which this soil 

 abounds, is to depend chiefly on what are called ratoon 

 canes,'' (or sprouts of the canes formerly planted) these continue 

 to be cut, and to produce sugar for some years : as they 

 decay they are replaced by /ra plants. By "this" method 

 the planter, instead of stocking " or digging up " his ratoons, 

 suffers the stoles to continue in the ground, '" instead of 

 stocking, or digging up his ratoons, and holeing and 

 planting the land anew." 



PAGE 208. 



<" In the cultivation of other lands (in Jamaica espe- 

 cially) the plough has been introduced of late years, and 



in 



