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snow. Each individual who is able to walk, is 

 furnished with one of these; but those for the 

 children are proportionately less. On them they 

 stow all their goods, and also their infants; which 

 they bundle up very warm in deer-skins. The 

 two ends of a leather thong are tied to the corners 

 of the sled; the bright ' or double part of which is 

 placed against the breast, and in that manner it 

 is drawn along. The men go first, reheving each 

 other in the lead by turns; the women follow 

 next, and the children, according to their strength, 

 bring up the rear; and, as they all walk in rack- 

 ets, the third or fourth person finds an excellent 

 path to walk on, let the snow be ever so light. 



The businesses hitherto carried on by the Eng- 

 lish, are the same with those on the island of New- 

 foundland. The exports are codfish, salmon, oil, 

 whalebone, and furs; but the latter are much 

 superior to any of the same kind which are killed 

 upon that island, and few parts of the world pro- 

 duce better. 



Notwithstanding the many disadvantages, which 

 that country labours under, from poverty of soil, 

 short summers, long winters, and severe frosts, 

 yet I am clear, that art and good management are 

 capable of making great improvements; and if 

 the observations which I made on the effects of 

 certain manures, in that country and Newfound- 

 land, can be of any use in England, I shall think 

 my time well bestowed in communicating them. 



In one garden which I made, where the ground 



1 A misprint, evidently, for bight. 



