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 want of draining. In wet clays, the rufhes, 

 and other aquatic rubbifh, ufurped the place 

 of corn and grafs ; the feafons of tilling 

 were retarded, and even deitroyed ; and 

 thofe paftures which ought to have fed an 

 ox, fcarccly maintained a fheep. 



2. The paftures and meadows of this 

 country were univerfally laid down in ridge 

 and furrow ; a practice highly dcitruclive 

 of profit, and deteftable to the eye ; and 

 the manner of laying down fuch lands, was 

 as miferable as their product denoted po- 

 verty ; for after many years ploughing, of 

 numerous crops but infufficient fallows, 

 when the foil was lb exhaufled as to difap- 

 point the expectation of corn, a parcel of 

 rubbifh called hay-feeds was fcattered over 

 the furface, and the field left to time for 

 improvement. A villanous cuflom, and 

 too much pra&ifed in all parts of the king- 

 dom. 



3. The culture of turnips was become 

 common, but in fuch a method that their 

 introduction was undoubtedly a real mil- 

 chief ; viz. without hoeing, fo that the 

 year of fallow, in the general management, 

 was the moft capital one of flovenliiiefs and 

 bad hufbandry. 



4. The implements ufed in agriculture 

 through this tract were infufficient for a 



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