146 SOIL AND MANAGEMENT. 



The center of the heaps being confumecf, 

 the outfkirts are thrown Hghtly^ into the 

 dimples or hollows, and the heaps rounded 

 up, as at firfl: ; contmuing to right up the 

 burrows until the whole of the beat be 

 confLinied, or changed, by the ad:ion of the . 

 fire. 



The produce of the firft fkirting being 

 burnty and fpread over the furface, the 

 operation is fometimes repeated ; by run- 

 ning the plow acrofs the lines of the firj(l 

 fkirting : thus paring oif the principal part 

 of the fpine ; again dragging, rolling, har- 

 rowing, eolleOing, and burning, as in the 

 former operation. 



General Remarks on Sodburning. 



HAVING formerly fpoken, at fome 

 length, on the fubjsed: now under notice, 

 the lefs is requilite to be faid in this place*. 

 Neverthelefs, the pra^J^ice of this country 

 (to which I was a ftranger when I wrote 

 the remarks above referred to), tending to 

 confirm the ideas which are there offered ; 



and 



« See York EcoN. Vol. I. page 311. 



