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SIX MONTHS TOUR, ^^, 



LETTER XV. 



FROM Rahy to Dut'ham the land is 

 in general very good, letting fo high 

 as from 1 5 j. to 3 /. but the average 

 is not above zis. or 22 j. Farms in general 

 under an hundred a-year. 



About that city there is much muftard 

 cultivated : The farmers fow it alone, on 

 good rich moift land ; and on that which 

 is pared and burnt. They get from 30 to 

 3 00 bufhels per acre ; and the price varies 

 from IOJ-. to 7.0)3. a bufhel : Some crops 

 worth 100/. an acre have been known. 

 When once muftard has been fown on a 

 piece of land, it can never begot out again: 

 In tillage it rifes with every crop that is 

 fown, which obliges the farmers to lay 

 down fuch lands to grafs, which fmotbers 

 it, but if broke up again centuries after- 

 wards, a crop of muftard is fure to rife. 

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