i^e THE RUPvAL SOCRATES, 



tcv ; from whence Kliyogg conda<Sls it to anothe;? 

 jneadow, after keeping it _ur refl for fome weeks. 



p. 253. Near the orchard arc fields containing about 

 50 acres. The land is heavy, bat rifes on the lides to 

 form a hill towards the center ; which being compofed 

 of gravel, ferves when diflrjbuted, to render the refl of 

 the land lighter. Tliis was an objedl however which 

 was not to the tafte of the children of Kliyogg* who 

 could not comprehend the ufe of fuch a mixture of foils ; 

 but experience here, as in other cafes, conquered their 

 prejudices and repugnancc—Foiiowing here his ufual 

 maxim, always to go to work the fliortefl way, Kliyogg 

 dug into his hill at two different places^tobc able todrefs 

 his. 50 acres fo much the faller with it. — He had fiill 

 100 acres to be treated in the fame manner. What 

 a perfpeclive was it for a laborious man, thus to fee 

 his harvefts in a train of increafing year after year 1 — 

 Fifty loads of this gravel are carried upon each acre y 

 ?.nd to quicken this work Kliyogg fcparates with gun- 

 powder great pieces from his hill* The gravel, in 

 rendering the land lefs heavy^ renders it at the fame 

 time more open to the adion of the feafons ; the cold 

 r=nd heat, the rain and fnow, and the air, penetrating 

 into it more eafily : and even the manure has more ac- 

 cefs to the land, when mixed with gravel 5 and weeds 

 sre thus alfo more eafily drawn from it. 



p. 61 — 267. VVe now approached a meadow upon 

 the Katzenbach, of about 20 acres ftud of a moift tem- 

 perament ; which afforded a new proof of the refblu- 

 ?:k)n and patience, which our philofopber employed in 

 improving his lands. He had rooted out of it a tliick 

 licdo-e ; and after having burned it, he had thrown the 

 afiies over the whole meadow. Below his Jic/ds^ which 

 border upon this meadow, he had dug a deep ditch, to 

 colledlthe water running from them, and to condu<fb it 

 flom time to time upon difl^^rent parts of the meadow. — 

 But what more particularly fcrved to water this mea- 

 clow, v/as the river Katzenbach ; from which Kliyogg 



