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nurfed up in proportion to their induflry, and 

 fome of them are now good farmers, with 4 

 or 500I. each in their pockets. He dictated to 

 them what they fhould do with their lands, 

 promifing to pay the lofs, if any fhould hap- 

 pen, while all the advantage would be their 

 own. They obeyed him implicitly, and he 

 never had a demand for a (hilling lofs. 



He fixed a colony of French and Bnglifh 

 Proteftants on the land, which have flourifhed 

 greatly. In Cullen are 50 families of trades- 

 men, among whom fobriety and induflry are 

 perfe&ly eflablifhed. 



Many of thefe lands being very wet, drain- 

 ing was a coniiderable operation: this he did 

 very efTeclually, burying in the drains feveral 

 millions of loads of ilones. 



The mode in which the chief baron carried 

 on the improvement, was by fallowing. He 

 flubbed the furze, &c. and ploughed it, upon 

 which he fpread from 140 to 170 barrels of 

 lime per acre, proportioning the quantity to 

 the mould or clay which the plough turned up. 

 For experiment he tried as far as 300 barrels, 

 and always found that the greater the quanti- 

 ty* the greater the improvement. The lime 

 coil him c)d. a barrel on the land: his ufual 

 quantity 160, at the expenfe of 61. an acre, 

 and the total of that expenfe alone thirty 

 thoufand pounds ! After the liming, fallowed 

 the land for rye, and after the rye took two 



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