CHAP. III. 



GREEN PASTURE MOUNTAINS. 



My speculations for the employment of the industrious 

 and unoccupied poor, in the improvement of their country, 

 have in two preceding" chapters been Umited to the for- 

 mation of MEADOWS. In the Jirst, for the winter main- 

 tenance of the numerous herds and flocks that graze upon 

 them in summer ; and in the second, for the winter main- 

 tenance of the cows who are. to supply with milk the 

 colonists and manufactures I hope to estabhsh in these 

 wilds. 



I now proceed to new measures ; still affording ample 

 employment to the industrious and unoccupied ; but with a 

 different object in view ; — the improvement of these pasture 

 grounds, as such. 



I hav e hitherto limited myself to select portions and di- 

 minutive patches, operating upon these alone ; but now 

 I embrace the whole area, excludmg only such parts as 

 are not of sufficient promise to encourage us to expend 

 our labour upon them. I have as yet also limited myself 

 to one grass, the agrostis stolonifera, diligently extirpat- 

 ing every other as it appears. But where pasture is my 

 object, I make no selections ; I avail myself of the assistance 

 of all grasses. 



" Spmite sua quce $e tollunt in luminis auras." 



As pasture grounds have at all times afforded suste- 



