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 clofes With a young plantation of firs and 

 other trees, which thrive extremely welL 



Attentive to eveiy objrdb that can render 

 his little farm either profitable, convenient, 

 or a^eeable — he has with no flight trouble 

 dirciled a Httle rill of water from the moors 

 throT:gh his fields; by which means he not 

 only has w^ater in every field for his cattle, 

 but can alfo water fome of his grafs, and 

 thereby fertilize it much. 



Were I to dwell upon every circumftance 

 of this collier's hufbandry, I fhould be 

 afraid of tedioufiiefs, but I f all not conclude 

 without attempting to give you fome idea 

 of the M A N, as well as his fir -^k 



I have fhewn you how he has managed 

 for feveral years above nine acres of land, 

 much of it always in tillage, and fome con- 

 flantly frelh breaking up, and improving : 



^We have found him cropping his land 



feveral years fucceflively, (a practice though 

 bad, yet of increafing labour) never fov/ing 

 any without a previous ample liming, and 



three or four ploughings ; adding to his 



cultivated land, by perftd:ly clearing the 

 frefh foil from all ftones, fome of them of an 

 enormous fize, of many tons weight ; and 

 by paring and burning, in the moft fpirited 



and laborious manner. When you con- 



fider thcfe circumflances, and that at the 

 fame time he has had the courage to attack 



eight acres more, will you not conclude 



he 



