I02 September 1748. 



appearance the ground was none of the 

 beitj and this conjedlure was verified by 

 the inhabitants of the country. When a 

 corn-field has been obliged to bear the 

 fame kind of corn for three years together, 

 it does not after that produce any thing at all 

 if it be not well manured, or fallowed for 

 fome years. Manure is very difficult to be 

 got, and therefore people rather leave the 

 field uncultivated. In that interval it is 

 covered with all forts of plants and trees j 

 and the countryman in the mean while, 

 cultivates a piece of ground which has till 

 then been fallow, or he chufes a part of the 

 ground which has never been, ploughed be- 

 fore, and he can in both cafes be pretty 

 fure of a plentiful crop. This method 

 can here be ufed with great convenience. 

 For the foil is loofe, fo that it can eafily be 

 ploughed, and every countryman has com- 

 monly a great deal of land for his property. 

 The cattle here are neither houfed in win- 

 ter, nor tended in the fields, and for this 

 reafon they cannot gather a fufficient quan- 

 tity of dung. 



All the cattle has been originally 

 brought over from Europe. The natives 

 have never had any, and at prefent few of 

 them care to get any. But the cattle dege^ 



nerates 



