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<W39 able to cultivate a third p«rt belter than ihe v^hole vineyard 

 ' before it was divided. * * Columella mentions this precept ofVii- 

 *gil with great commenJatlon, an.i fays it was taken (rom a faying of 



* one of the feven wife roen, [m.'iron orijion'] ; and ir was a proverb of the 

 < Carth«>ginians, that a field ought to be ^weaker than the hujlandman. 



* Columella adds, that, aher the expulficn of :he kings, feven acres was ihe 



* allowance to each perfon, iiom which they derived more profit, than they 



* did in his time from large plantations.*— -5^? Dr, Martja's Edition of the 

 Georgicsi book 2, /. 41 2---4i3.-*-The reafoning in this note applies to 

 other farms, as well as to vineyards ; provided the labor on the farm is 

 increafed at the fame time that the farm is divided. Cut if a large fdf.n 

 is kept, as it often is in the United States, with little or no attention ; and it 

 the parts are treated in like raanner,upon being divided ;the parts will not 

 profper for being feparated ; and this will net be found one of the caf<;s ta 

 which the proverb applies, that the half is better than the 'whole. 



That cultivation indeed in the United States fufFers from the high 

 prices of labor and other circumftances, is well known; but it is equally 

 certain that it is favored by the land being cheap and by the taxes being 

 low, 2s well as by the freedom of the governmerir. The woods toa i.- 

 bound with the means of making manure, after the mannei fuggeficd by 

 ICliyogg ; as likewife with a fubftltute for comnion fodder, liuh as h.-i? 

 been ufed by many fartners, antient and modern*. 



Little more remains to be fdid here of Kliyogg. — If he bad fau!j?, as 

 well as virtues, the virtues largely predominated ; and his faults werefojre- 

 tiroes even occafioned by his virtues. The latter may however be for- 

 given, not only as he was hun[>an, and hitfffelf candid to the faults cf 

 others ; but as he wanted the help of exa-rples, of advifers, and cf book , 

 to perfedl hira. It will be chiefly important however to think of his ex- 

 cellencies J which were numerous, important, and often uncommon. And 

 i"urely we may pardon much to a man, who formed his charadier by the 

 powetr ci his rcafon ; who raifed his forfune by the merit of his condo(^ ; 

 who being uncorrupted by fLztitxy and profpeiif}', rennaincd to the lafl 

 what he was in the beginning; who prcfcribed nothing to others, to which 

 he did not firit hixfelf fabinitj who h vedthe poor, and was hof;ored by 

 the rich ; who was a difmteiefted friend to the public ; and to public im- 

 prcvements ; who examined the tendency of every acfion, and never did 

 a thing which was not founded on fome well-deliberated principle ; who 

 was a Chriftian after the manner of Jefus, that if, abounding in chari - 

 ty and good works j and finally died at a good old age, bequeathing tc 

 the latelf pofterity, an example of profeffional n^ill, undaunted perfever- 

 ance, perfonal worth, civic viiiue, and a religion copied from ihe words 

 ofChrift. 



A few particulats ftill remain to be told to the reader refpefling the 

 work before him. - The 



* That ist lea'vei end tnjulgSj eaten by ths cattle drj\ See Mfa Teung* : 

 AnmVs of /Igriculture^^KA, i, t^ 207. 



