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of crops, as they leave the foil fo foul that 

 a fallow rather than another crop ought to 

 fucceed. 



The great benefit of turnips is not the 

 mere value of the crop, but the cleaning 

 the land fo well as to enable the farmer to 

 cultivate the artificial grades with profit. 

 If nine hufbandmen out of ten, give a 

 complete year's fallow to a field, they can- 

 not forbear taking two, and perhaps three 

 crops of corn in confequence of it ; fo that 

 graifes cannot be fown with any profpect 

 of benefit ; but when turnips pay for the 

 expence of the year's fallow, they are in- 

 duced to fow the grafs with the fir ft fuc- 



ceeding 



the groves ; and in others ftretch away from the 

 eye in noble iheets, under a bold Ihore finely 

 fpread with hanging woods. A temple will be 

 erected, commanding a mod beautiful fcenery 

 of varied ground, wood, and water. From the 

 houfe will be feen, over the lake, fome fine irre- 

 gular (lopes fcattered with a few trees and 

 thorns, rifing to a plantation of firs, which, 

 when fomewhat altered, will have a very elegant 

 appearance. Embofomed in their center is to 

 rife a little Grecian temple, juft fhowing its 

 dome among the trees, from whence will be 

 yiewed, on every fide, a molt beautiful profpect; 

 it will look down on the lake with an irregular 

 Ihore on the oppofite fide, rifing to the houfe, 

 which appears in the fore ground of a nobie 



wood 



