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The only particulars which appear to me 

 riOticeablc in this place are, 



1. Plowing with reins, 



2. Laying lands acrols nopes, 



I. Plowing with Rein's. In thisrefped:, 

 the hufbandmen of the Vale excel. Various 

 as are their foils, they plow them invariably 

 with TWO HORSES, driven and guided with 



Vv^HIP-REINS. 



Proper /eafo?js for the operation are endea- 

 voured to be caught ; but, even with this ad- 

 vantage, it is matter of aftonilliment how fome 

 of their llrong deep foils are turned by a 

 pair of light {lender horfes •, which, in a ba- 

 lance, would barely outweigh one of the lour 

 (or perhaps Cix) which are ufed upon the 

 hills of Surrey and Kent in plowing foils of 

 lefs tenacity ! 



In Norfolk the foil is light, and the great 

 merit of the Norfolk hulbandmcn lies in 

 their expedition. Here, where thecuuom is 

 to go only one journey, the quantity plowed in a, 

 dav is much Icfs than in Norfolk : but eene- 

 rally more, even in the ftrongcr foils, than is 

 done by two men and four expenfive horfes 

 in inany other places. 



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