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ready brought a quantity of flones hither, 

 and intend building a new church very Toon. 

 The botanical obfervations which I made 

 during thefe days, 1 fhall referve for ano- 

 ther pubUcation. 



Though there had been no rain for fome 

 days paft, yet the moifture in the air was (o 

 great, that as I fpread fome papers on the 

 ground this afternoon, in a (hady place, in- 

 tending to put the feeds I colleded into 

 them, they were fo wet in a £ew minutes 

 time, as to be rendered quite ufelefs. The 

 whole fky was very clear and bright, and 

 the heat as intolerable as in the middle of 

 July. 



One half of the corn-fields are left fal- 

 low alternately. The fallow grounds are 

 never ploughed in fummer i fo the cattle 

 can feed upon the weeds that grow on them. 

 All the corn made ufe of here is fummer 

 corn, as I have before obferved. Some 

 plough the fallow grounds late in autumn ; 

 others defer that buiinefs till fpring ; but 

 the firfl; way is faid to give a much better 

 crop. Wheat, barley, rye, ijnd oats are har- 

 rowed, but peafe are ploughed under ground. 

 They few commonly about the i rth of A- 

 pril, and begin with the peafe. Among 

 the many kinds of peafe v^hich are to be 

 got here, thev prefer the green ones to all 



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