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by men of obfervation, that they acquire thia 

 |late, though kept perfeftly feparate from the. 

 rci^l-coih variety. If this be really Jv fa<^, it is 

 a llriking evidence p-f the power of foils and 

 fituations, in eftabliOiing what the botaqiUs 

 call varieties, \n the vegetable kingdom. 



II. The soil. — In this, as in moft other 

 Diflriifls, wheat is fown on almoft every fpccies 

 of foil. But the farmers here, as in other 

 places, too frequently find out, at harveft, 

 that a full crop of barley, or oats, would 

 have paid them better than half a crop of 

 wheat. 



In the northern parts of this Diftrid: there 

 are many very light-land farms, — and fome 

 in the central parts of it — which pafs under 

 the denomination of barley-farms : and on 

 which the occupiers judicioufly content them- 

 felves with a fmall proportion of wheat. 



But the fouthern parts of the Diftridl, and 

 ^he fouth-eaft parts of the county in general, 

 enjoy a ftronger, richer foil, well adap^d to 

 the propagation of wheat. 



III. The succession. — In the regular courfe 

 «f hufbandry, the wheat-crop fucceeds inva- 



riably 



