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had made a trench with infinite trouble and difncalty. 

 This operation was conducftcd with a degree of preci- 

 fion which was even mathematical, though efFedccl 

 without any mathematical inflrument ; the common 

 fenfe and jiifl eye of Kliyogg alone directing him, Sec, 



['n. B. From p. 268 — 271, obfervations follow on 

 the true eye pofTefTed by peaiants : 



Alfo on the rage for law-luits which ruins £0 many 

 of this clafs of people.] 



Kliyogg now condudcd the author from the Katzcn- 

 bach to his vines, p. 272 — 274. The manner in which 

 Kliyogg cultivates his vines will prcbabh/ (fays our 

 Swifs clergyman,) not be interefling to America : it is 

 therefore not given for tranilatlon. p. 271 — 274. All 

 the family of Kliyogg wa.-^ occupied in his vineyard. 

 Here, as every v/hereelfc the author difcovered impor- 

 tant improvements, feeing on evc.^y (ids thorns and bufii- 

 es and hedges entirely rooted up.-— The fcite of a hedge 

 among other circumflances offered to Kliyogg a fat 

 earth, of which a part could be carried among his vines» 

 But to increafe his means of drelling his lands, he cov- 

 ered the roads which led from his houfe and from thofc 

 of fome of his neighbors to the neighboring mill, with 

 little branches of trees and leaves and mofs ; which be- 

 ing trodden upon by horfes and cattle, and mixed with 

 the earth and mud from ditches, is excellent for vines ; 

 and amounted to one hundred loads a year.— It is true 

 that Kliyogg is reproached with doing much hurt to his 

 woods by the great number of leaves which he ahvays 

 collefe from them ; but the precautions which he ufes 

 on this occaiion, and the vtvy afp^eci of his woods, provs 

 the contrary. 



p. 275 — 276. In returning by tlie rye- fields of Kli- 

 yogg to lee his cattle, every thing manifefled indefati- 

 gable application and care, and much reflexion as to 

 what regarded agriculture. — His children, his domei^ 

 tics, the increafmg fertility of his lands, with his (lock 

 of ivhcat and v/inCj every thing in fhcrt, fhewed the 



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