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*'ride at roll :" an employment, however, which 

 generally falls to the fliare of a young boy, or 

 ^n old man. 



Notwithflandlng the high degree of cultiva- 

 tion in v/hich the lands of Norfolk are un- 

 doubtedly kept, no country perhaps has Icfs 

 variety of implements. 



There is not perhaps a ^r///, zhcrfe-hoe^ or 

 fcarcely a horfe-rake^ in Eaft- Norfolk. I favv 

 one fpikey-roller for the purpofe of indenting 

 the furface of a clover-lay once plowed for 

 wheat ('fee the article Wheat) : but this, I 

 i)elieve, was never in common ufe. 



There is, however, one implement, received, 

 into the Norfolk hufbandry, which is probably 

 a Norfolk invention, and peculiar to the county : 

 I have not m.et with it, at leaft, out of this 

 country : — I mean the 



yi. Snow-Sledge. — This beautifully fim- 

 ple implement isufed for uncovering turneps bu- 

 ried under a deep fnow. It is limply three deal 

 or other boards, from one to two inches thick, 

 ten or twelve inches deep, and (even to nine feet 

 long, fet upon their edges in the form of an 

 equilateral triangle, and llrongly united, \vith 

 nails or llraps of iroDj at the angles ; at one 



