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rel j it is large and hard. Upon the river 

 Blackwater, there are trails of flat land in fome 

 places one quarter of a mile broad ; the grafs 

 every where remarkably fine, and lets at 305. 

 It is the fineft fandy land 1 have any where 

 feen, of a reddifh brown colour, would yield 

 the greateit arable crops in the world, if in 

 tillage; it is five feet deep, and has fuch a 

 principle of adhefion, that it burns into good 

 brick, yet it is a perfect fand. In floods much 

 of it is overflown. The banks of this river, 

 from its fource to the fea, are equally remark- 

 able for beauty of profpect, and fertility of 

 foil. 



There is but little manufacturing in Mal- 

 low ; even fpinning is not general. Mr. Jeph- 

 fon manures his lands very highly with all 

 forts of dung and fullage of the ftreets of Mal- 

 low, which is conflantly bringing away ; by 

 means of this regular attention, united with 

 the goodnefs of the foil, he has brought it into 

 that high degree of heart, indicated by the 

 rent, at which it would let. The whole is 

 divided into fields, of a moderate fize, with 

 double quick hedges, well planted with trees, 

 and kept in the mod perfect degree of neatnefs ; 

 between the hedges are gravel walks, fo that 

 there is a planted communication about all the 

 fields ; the gates are neat and light, and every 

 attention preferved to give the whole the ap- 

 pearance of a ferme erne. The quantity of til- 

 lage is not confiderable, but his crops very 

 great, barley up to twenty barrels per acre. 

 Mules he finds more uicful and hardy, than 



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