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cover, for the management of a farm he took 

 into his own hands, who brought with him a 

 ploughman, plough, harrow and tackle. The 

 defiVn does honour to the nobleman who 

 formed it; and Mr. Vancover is not likely to 

 difappoint him; he is a fenfible, intelligent 

 active man, who w T ent through all the manual 

 part of farming in a feven years apprenticefhip 

 to a great farmer in Norfolk. I found him 

 juft what I could wifh, difgufted neither with 

 the country nor the people, pleafed and ani- 

 mated with the profpect of improvement be- 

 fore him, and had no doubt of fuccefs. He 

 was going on perfectly well ; ploughing off 

 the turf of a boggy bottom, adjoining to a 

 great bog ; burning it into fmall heaps, and 

 intending immediately to plough and fow 

 turnips, of which, he will have 1 2 acres this 

 year, and purpofes having many more the year 

 after ; he has cut fome very long drains into 

 the bog, defigns attacking it, and expects to 

 make it excellent land, though initead of 

 ploughing it firft for burning, he muft dig it ; 

 I am clear he will not be difappointed : he has 

 a fine field to work upon, for Lord Shelburne 

 has 4000 acres of bog here. The high parts 

 of the farm, are a rough lime ftone land, but 

 very dry and found, he defigns in winter, 

 grubbing the rubbiih, burning all the ftone 

 into lime, and ploughing it for turnips the 

 following year. Let me obferve, that this is 

 the right conduct of rough land, which fhould 

 always be brought into turnips firft, and not 

 fallowed for wheat, as all the Irifh improvers 



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