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What a noble acquifition v^all It be to 

 change 900 acres, from being a barren de- 

 fart, to a finely cultivated farm ! This will 

 be cffeded in a few years ; for now, the 

 new houfe and fet of offices being finifhed, 

 and preparations made for the walling and 

 improving, by opening fevcral quarries both 

 for the walls and burning of lime, the grand 

 work will go on faft : The old team 

 refpited from attending the buildings, and 

 the new ones being alio free, both will be 

 employed by the walling and tillage alone ; 

 and confequently the breaking up the un- 

 cultivated land go on much quicker than 

 ever: Probably 40, 50, or 60 acres will be 

 inclofed, pared, burned and limed every 

 year, and this work will be rendered light, 

 if one of the old tillage fields is annually 

 iaid down. 



If fuch an able cultivator, who has fo 

 many years experience, and fo apprehenfive 

 a genius, would allow me to conjeolure a little, 

 I ihould venture to mention the cultivation 

 of fainfoine to him. His higher grounds 

 being a fine light loam upon a ftratum o-f 

 llmeltonc, there can be no doubt but that 

 vegetable would thrive prodigioully upon it, 

 and yield crops probably five times as bene- 

 ficial as natural grai's. But on the lower 

 grounds, which are all more or lels inclinable 

 to wctncfs, the bcrt hufbaiidry raufi: be t ) 

 lay dovv-n to natural g^afs, as long as it 



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