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Scotland, and which is now making its 

 ■\^'ay, very rapidly, into the North of Eng- 

 land : namely, that of fowing them on 

 narrow ridges, fimilar to thofe in which 

 potatoes are fometimes raifed, in the Dif- 

 tri<ft under view : a method that appears 

 to me fingularly adapted to the fliallower 

 foils of Devonshire j which, in gener^tl, are 

 well fuited to the Turnep culture. 



19. 



- POTATOES. 



THE History of the Potatoe crop, as 

 an objed of field culture, in this Weftern 

 Diflrift, furniines another inflance of the 

 refpect which its cultivators have long 

 borne to eilablifiied cuftoms. It is not 

 more than twentyfive years, if fo much> 

 fmce the entire Country, including, I be- 

 lieve, the markets of Plymouth, was fup~ 

 plied vv'ith Pototoes from the neighbour- 

 ■ ' hood 



