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 pate all weeds and keep the foil loofe, the 

 hoes fix inches wide. It always Hands 

 three years, fometimes four. 



When they dig up the crop, they cut a 

 trench as deep as the land was before dug 

 (for fo deep the liquorice roots will run) 

 and this trench they continue directly 

 acrofs the land ; when cleared, and the 

 roots all picked up by women and children 

 as the men proceed, they begin a fecond 

 by it, throwing the moulds into the old 

 one, and fo continue through at the whole 

 field, by which means it is all dug over to 

 the old depth ; and is ready with the for- 

 mer management for a frefh crop of li- 

 quorice ; by which means one digging 

 (after the firft) ferves both for the old and 

 new crop. And this is fo great an induce- 

 ment to continue the plantation upon the 

 fame ground, that many fields have been 

 continually cropped with it as long back 

 as the oldeft man can remember : In this 

 cafe, however, the land requires much 

 manuring ; new land is the beft. 



Upon raifing the crop, the plants are 

 cut off, and the roots fepa rated into three 

 forts; they fell all together upon an average, 

 at 3 s. 6d. or 4 s. aftone of 15 lb.; and 

 thfir crops rife from 150 to 4Goflone; 

 many about 250. 



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