30 TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, &c. 



if any one will but try the above process of cultivation, even upon 

 a small scale, with the spade, and common garden rake, he will 

 not be disappointed ; an^ will find just reason to infer, that it is 

 very possible to obtain abundant crops of vegetables, or corn, 

 from many parts of this island, that are, in their present state, 

 totally desolate and barren. 



22d April, 1811. 



