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an acre; then barley 14 barrels; and then 

 meadow worth 40s. In this circumftance of 

 letting meadow it (hould be remarked, that 

 they will hire it at great prices, fuch as mi- 

 nuted, but the fame lands would not let at 

 more than 1 8s. upon a leafe ; for in one cafe 

 you ftand the chance of keeping the land to 

 its prefent heart, and in the other the tenant 

 has that chance. 



There is a circumftance which mould be 

 mentioned, the fkin of the turf fhould not be 

 broken for fome years by heavy cattle; for 

 wherever they make a hole, the rufhes grow 

 at once, which cannot be eafily deftroyed. Mr. 

 French does not think it at all neceflary to 

 keep an improved bog under grafs, as he has 

 found by experience, that the more they are 

 cultivated the better they grow. In the winter 

 he feeds his reclaimed bogs with fheep ; they 

 have a perpetual fpring of grafs all through 

 that feafon, and are of a nature fo contrary to 

 that of rotting fheep, that they will recover 

 thofe which are threatened with that dif- 

 temper. 



He has planted feveral large clumps in his 

 reclaimed bogs, and has found that almoft 

 every kind of tree thrives well in them : I 

 thought the fpruce fir feemed to get up the 

 quicker!:, but all of them appeared perfectly 

 healthy. 



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