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ihem; and in parts where tobacco is cultivated, 
several crops of it are taken, in succession, before 
any grain is sown. No one states the average of 
that extensive flat country in Virginia, lying below 
the head of tide water, at more than five or stx 
bushels; and in those fertile and beautiful vallies, 
among the mountains, in which ignorant cultivators 
have not yet resided sufficiently long to have en- 
tirely exhausted the soil, the produce may not be 
less than fwelve bushels the acre.” 
These specimens of agricultural skill will not be 
adduced as proof of the favorite national position, 
that “we are the most enlightened people on the face of 
the globe,” and the less so, as a lapse of eighteen 
years had not entirely weaned us from ancient 
habits; for neither on the Maryland peninsula, nor 
in eastern Virginia, is there any material alteration 
in their mode of culture, excepting what may have 
arisen from the fact, that having no more fresh land 
to exhaust, they are now obliged to recur to old field, 
and are, of course, annually suffering the new and 
increased penalties of former improvidence’ On 
the western shore of Maryland, in the northern 
parts of Delaware, and in Pennsylvania, New-Jer- 
sey and New-York, the state of things is better ; 
clover has been substituted for (what Mr. Strickland 
calls) rubbish pasture, and the root husbandry is 
encroaching on summer fallows; which we regard 
asa decisive step towards a regular and judicious 
rotation of crops. 
