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hood of Morton Hampftead, at the oppo- 

 lite end of Dartmore, and at not lefs than 

 twenty miles diftance from the center of this 

 Diftrid:, nor lefs than thirty miles from 

 Plymouth and its dock yard ! The film of 

 prejudice, however, being at length feen 

 through. Potatoes were found to grow, and 

 to produce their kind, at the Weft end, as 

 well as at the Eaft end, of Dartmore ; and, 

 now, the Diflridl raifes enough to furnifli 

 its own confumption, and to fupply the 

 markets in its neighbourhood j though 

 the population, probably, has much en- 

 creafed, during the lapfc of five and twenty 

 years. 



It is reafonable to fuppofe that the people 

 of Morton, while they monopolized, and 

 pradlifed as a myftery, the culture of Po-r 

 tatoes, during a length of time, would not 

 be inattentive to the minutigs of cultivation; 

 and it is equally probable, that the know- 

 ledge they acquired travelled Weilward, 

 with the operation. Let this be as it may, 

 the culture of Potatoes is, at prefent, well 

 underftood, here; and, in one particular, 

 at leaft, deferves to be copied. , 



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