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is laid slantwise into the furrow, the earth turned over by 

 the next furrow covering the roots. Although this is but 

 a rough mode of planting, very few plants, we are told, 

 fail to grow. The rape-seed will be ripe against next June, 

 and cleared off in time for a second crop of some kind. 

 Fields of lucern occasionally presented themselves. 



Dieppe. 



Oct. 3. — The morning was very cold, and we found all 

 the little pools in the streets covered with a pellicle of ice. 

 The schooner Prince Regent, Captain Bulbeck, being to 

 sail in the afternoon, we had only a very short time to 

 spend at Dieppe. We expected nothing, and we met with 

 nothing, interesting in the way of horticulture at a sea-port 

 town. We ascended to the bomb-battery on the heights 

 at the N. E. side of the town, and had a complete view of 

 the harbour, so noted as the resort of privateers during the 

 late war. The harbour is a tide one, very ill constructed, 

 and having its entrance choked with gravel. It was now 

 ebb-tide, and several hundred women with baskets were 

 engaged in the hopeless task of clearing the channel, by 

 removing the gravel from the one side of the bank to the 

 other : a more inefficient remedy could scarcely be devised, 

 as the next gale from the N. W. must inevitably restore 

 the whole to its former state. In the fields near Dieppe, 

 some oats and even barley still remained uncut ; and a 

 good deal of corn was lying cut on the stubble. We un- 

 derstand that it is a common practice to let it lie, unstack- 

 ed, till it be wanted for thrashing. 



About five in the afternoon, with the aid of about 150 

 of the gravel-carrying females, our schooner was hauled 

 down the sinuous channel ; and, after grounding once or 

 twice, we were enabled to set sail for England. 



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