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them worth to him from I s. to i /. 6 ch 

 per bufhel, or near 20 /. per acre. But 

 the product, like that of ail other crops, 

 will vary according to the goodnefs of the 

 foil, and rife to 5 or 600 bufhels. But all the 

 fands I viewed at Stilling fleet, would yield 

 good crops ; the dark coloured ones the beft, 

 jf the farmers there and in the neighbour- 

 hood, or any others upon light deep foils 

 of any fort none better than loams if nei- 

 ther heavy nor wet) will go into this article 

 of culture, I venture to allure them, they 

 will find it greatly advantageous, and make 

 their fands more profitable than their 

 richer! clays. 



Another improvement much wanted in 

 this country, is that of hollow draining 

 the wet lands, all their clay foils and fome 

 of their light ones are much damaged by 

 wet, which they have fcarcely any notions 

 of carrying off. Their clays, whether grafs 

 or arable, are kept up on broad high 

 ridges; a practice feemingly judicious, but 

 when it is remarked, that they do not 

 take care to convey away the water which 

 fettles in the furrows, it muft ftrike the 

 leaft attentive obferver, that a vaft quantity 

 of land muft be loft by the overflowing of 

 the water : Their paftures are all overrun 

 with rnfhes and other aquatic weeds, the 

 furrows quite full, and many three quar- 

 ters 



