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of their crops, and found them prodi- 

 gioufly thick of plants and weeds, all pro- 

 miicuous. They plough three or four 

 times for rye, fow two bufhels and a half, 

 and reap at an average three quarters; they 

 fow it chiefly on their fands, as they rind 

 wheat on that foil very apt to be mildewed. 

 Taffels for dreffing cloth have been cul- 

 tivated in their richefr, clays to good ad- 

 vantage. They give the land a year's fal- 

 low, weed the crop by hand once, at the 

 expence of feven, eight, or ten {hillings per 

 acre : It remains three years : They are 

 fold by the thoufand, and are reckoned very 

 profitable, but are fuppofed to exhauft the 

 land greatly. Here are likewife many po- 

 tatoes cultivated, but more about Fuforth 

 and Nabourn ; the method is the fame in 

 all ; they give a winter fallow for them, 

 plant 1 6 bufhels on an acre in rows two 

 feet afunder, and the plants one foot, 

 plough between them two or three times, 

 and hand-weed the fame at 5 s. an acre ; 

 80 bufhels they reckon a middling crop j 



very great degree of furprize ; and thole who, 

 after reading thefe imperfect notes minuted from 

 memory, (hall view thefe mod elegant produc- 

 tions of female genius, will rind them greatly to 

 exceed their expectation, and to abound with 

 beauties of the mod ftriking and plealing na- 

 ture. 



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