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the best Agriculturists, akerman, in England. We 

 now found here part of the arable fields very well 

 husbanded, so that they lay almost like beds in a kitchen 

 garden, others again sufficiently carelessly managed. 

 The same description mostly applied to the inclosures, 

 or tappor, which were laid out as meadows that one 

 part was very well cared for, skott, the grass-growth 

 very thick, and not a sign of moss in them. 



Others stood beautiful with clover, Sain Foin, and 

 such like kinds of hay, but there were some also, which 

 deserved our pity. The moss had there so got the upper 

 hand, that it had almost entirely extirpated the beautiful 

 hay which had formerly been sown there. It resembled, 

 in a word, our most moss -choked meadows. After a 

 time we met an old farmer, and enquired of him " to 

 whom the field belonged which was cultivated with so 

 much care ? " Ans. " It is mine, if I may make so bold 

 as to say it." 



Q. "Who is the cultivator of this inclosure, which 

 stands so green and luxuriant with clover, and on which 

 there is not one blade of moss ? " 



Ans. " This is mine, that is Mr. Williams'," etc. 



Q. " Who is the owner of this field, which to a great 

 extent stands under water, and is so ill cultivated? " Ans. 

 " A Mr. Ellis as he is called." " Mr. Ellis?" I asked, "you 

 must have forgotten yourself, or is there here more than 

 one Mr. Ellis ? " " No," replied the man, there is not more 

 than one Mr. Ellis here, and to him the field belongs." 



Q. " Who works on the inclosure away there where 

 the moss has so excessively got the upper hand ? " 



Ans. " The same Mr. Ellis." I had from such para- 

 doxical answers soon forgotten all my Latin, and asked 

 therefore " if it is the same Mr. Ellis who is so celebrated 

 for the many beautiful works he has published on [T. I. 

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