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fent acqiiaintnnce, finds this made up to him by the 

 crowd of Grangers who have addrefTed themfclves ta 

 bim in order to fee Kiiyogg, 



p. 14. The author gives an account of a vifit to Kii- 

 yogg made in company with this Venetian lenator and 

 his fellow-traveller Dr. Seflari. 



They met Kiiyogg in .hi*s marle-pit ; that mine of 

 farmir.g gold, which has enabled him To to improve the 

 heavieft of hir, fands, that they bear different forts of 

 wheat for three fucceffive years vvithoiu iheaid of any 

 other manure* He was loading a waggon with maris 

 to be carried into a field juft obtained by an exchange ■; 

 and v/hich had been fo much neglected, that nothino; 

 was to be icen upon it except here and there a fe\w 

 pines, p. 15. This was the fpot chcfen for the confer- 

 ence, p. 20. Dr. Hirzel i^ys th^t it was long, perhaps' 

 for ages, that this treafme had lain hid under cultiva- 

 tion ; and that it was at length allowed to Kiiyogg to 

 difcover and make ufe of it to give to his other lands a 

 sew degree of fertility ; and thus to rccornpenfe the 

 labors of a refpedlable peafimt vvhx)ni Providence had 

 deilined to fervc as a proof and example, that the di- 

 vine benediclion accompanies the cultivator who is la- 

 bar ions and indaftrious.*^' ^' 



KHyogg ftruck off with \m hoc'a piece of this marie, 

 bleding the hour ni which he had difcovered this trea-. 

 fure, tmd thole perfons who had inllruded him in the* 

 ule of a mixture of different forts of earth, He fa id' 

 with the mofl: lively emotion of joy ^ I owe to this marls 



* not only abundant hai veils, but the chara<fler of my 

 - children. It is true, tliat they murmured againfc ml 

 ' at firlf, for employing them in hard labor eVen ditrm:' 

 ^ ths winter^ which otlier peafants pafTed in idlenefs and 



* ale-houies, or in ufelefs talk.' '' ff'liy (faid they oft- 

 "■ en) are we not equally with them to enjoy the fruits cf 

 *' our labor y and t(^ repair i-a this 7^.3^7yiirv our j atignei 



