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common, but they low it with barley; they 

 get fifteen hundred weight of hay off it the 

 rirft crop, and ten or twelve hundred weight 

 the fecond; but ibmetimes they iced one crop. 

 Their culture of potatoes is as follows : 

 They dung the lay ground well ; lay the 

 flices (eighteen buihels) on the dung, and 

 then dig trenches two fpits wide, and cover 

 the fetts, which are laid feven inches fquare, 

 with the turfs and moulds that rife : If 

 weeds come they are drawn out by hand. 

 The crop, upon an average, a hundred and 



From the north end of this ifle, fo happy in 

 the beauties of proipecl, the views are various^ 

 and fome of them exquifite : Looking to- 

 wards the ibuth, you command a fine view 

 of the lake, fpreading to the right and left be- 

 hind promontories, one beyond another, in an 

 irregular but glorious flieet of water, encircled by 

 an amphitheatre of hills, in the nobleft ftile. To 

 the north you look upon another iheet, different 

 from the firft : It is broken by a clufter of four 

 fmall but beautiful iflands. 



Full in front you look upon a fweep of moun- 

 tains, and on one, in particular, that is very 

 curious: It is of a circular form, rifing out of a 

 vaii hollow among the reft, and is overtopped by 

 them •, a fcene romantic in the highcfl degree. 

 A little to the right of ir, you command one of 

 the fineft cultivi in the world. It is in- 



terfered by hedges, trees, and Icattereu wo 

 into avail fweep oi ; which reach the 



very top: Moretoj :, the eye : ighped 



