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3!. 35. But not fo cheap if near a village. 

 Labour paid in land in general. Grafs of a 

 collop 2!. 2S. if a cow hayed, 505. 



Palatines were fettled here by the late Lord 

 Southwell, about feventy years ago. They 

 have in general leafes for three lives, or 31 

 years, and are not cottars to any farmer, 

 but if they work for them, are paid in mo- 

 ney. The quantities of land are fmall, and 

 fome of them have their feeding land in com- 

 mon by agreement. They are different from 

 the Irifh in feveral particulars ; they put their 

 potatoes in with the plough, in drills, horfe- 

 hoe them while growing, and plough them 

 out. One third of the dung does in this me- 

 thod, for they put it only in the furrows, 

 but the crops are not fo large as in the com- 

 mon method. They plough without a dri- 

 ver j a boy of twelve has been known to 

 plough and drive four horfes, and fome of 

 them have a hopper in the body of their 

 ploughs, which fows the land at the fame 

 time it is ploughed. Their courfe of crops is, 



i, Potatoes, 2. Wheat. 3. Wheat. 4. Oats. 

 i. Potatoes. 2. Barley. 3. Wheat. 4. Oats. 



In whicii management they keep their land 

 many years, never laying it out as their neigh- 

 bours do. They preferve fome of their Ger- 

 man cuftoms : fleep between two beds. They 



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