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fig., i. is the fkctch of a machine invented 

 by this ingenious cultivator for cutting up 

 mole and ant hills, which he has found to 

 anfwer greatly. 

 (i.y The beam nine feet long and four 



inches fquare. 

 (2.) The two flat fhares of iron four feet 



long and five inches wide. 

 (3.) The fide pieces five feet long, and five 



inches broad, by four thick. 

 (4.) The handles four feet fix inches long. 

 (5.) The four ftandards, two feet high 



from the ground, fame fize as beam. 

 I forgot to tell you, that all the tillage 

 of this country, is performed by horfes 

 which are much preferred to oxen for that 

 purpofe ; but the latter are chiefly ufed in 

 the waggon for bringing home the crop, 

 or for carrying manure, &c. but generally 

 two oxen and two horfes. They all alien, 

 that two oxen at a draught are much 

 ftrongcr than two horfes, and will carry 

 out a much greater weight. In the heavy 

 lands they plough with four horfes abreaft ; 

 in the light ones with two, and do an acre 

 or an acre and half a day ; and what is 

 very aftonifhing, and to me unparallelled, 

 is their ploughing with four horfes, with- 

 out a driver ; there is no fuch thing as a 

 driver known in the country : A lad 

 ploughs, and drives the four horfes by two 

 lines, with great eafe. I mould likewife 



inform 



