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LETTER Li. 



Ardbracken, Sept. 27, 1813. 



??E paid a visit this morning to Somerville, 

 the seat of Sir Marcus Somerville, about nine 

 miles from this place. Some very fine old 

 timber adds greatly to the respectability and 

 consequence of the house; the situation of 

 which is high and commanding, and the soil 

 well calculated for the turnip husbandry. 



The farming offices in this neighbourhood 

 are more extensive than any we had before 

 observed. The farmers were busily employed 

 in stacking their grain, and in wheat sowing on 

 their fallows. It is not uncommon here to have 

 seven crops of oats in succession ; instances 

 are reported of lands being thus employed for 

 twenty years without interruption ; and what 

 renders this fact still more remarkable, the 

 latter crops are said to have been productive, 

 and profitable. Old grass lands are considered 

 equal to the growth of potatoes without manure, 

 and to the production of four or five crops of 



