TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, &c. 117 



Mr. Fisli,* with the said plonc^h, getting on at a great rate ; 

 tearing np the ground neatly on the Church fields : I saw Tom 

 Stream, t and Johnny Spring J no less busy, and I was wonder- 

 fully surprised to see how much they did in a short time. A 

 couple of horses, or three or four oxen, and a couple of men, 

 were all they needed ; indeed, I am told, in Scotland two horses 

 and one man do the business ; and when once we get our half- 

 starved beasts and horses in good order, and in strength, by the 

 green crops of corn I have also seen, there is no reason why we 

 mayn't do the same likewise. 



Now, thinks I to myself, if I can get Csesar and Pompey, with 

 a few of my cattle, at present doing nothing, to do all these things, 

 what a great saving it would be. These two able men, and one 

 of the new machines, (that rolls on wheels like a wheel-barrow) 

 with some of my beasts, would, I am positive, do me more ser- 

 vice than 50 Ceesars and 50 Pompeys. Away then, says I to 

 myself, with your spades and your pickaxes ; and let me try the 

 same things. The first cost will be nothing compared with what 

 I shall gain. 



After attentively observing the method of ploughing, I thought 

 other things might be seen — I watched ; and saw drills opened 

 with the jjlough, and potatoes dropped in, and then covered up. 

 I then saw the said Fish, Stream, and Spring, (and favourably 

 ominous I think it is, that these allied names come together) still 

 using a plough to take the potatoes out of the ground ; nay, I 

 saw more ; for the harrow was used ; and I wondered at the 

 scraping it made ; for at one scrape, it scratched out, in a couple 

 of hours, more potatoes than twenty of my slaves could gather 



* Mr. Breame, of Norfolk, the superintendant of the Company's farms. 

 t Thomas Brooke, Esq. Secretary to the Government, and author of the History of St. 

 Helena, | John Defountahi, Esq. Storekeeper. 



