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ver it only with Water for two or three Inches 

 high, and when it has grown 5 or 8 Inches 

 long, they pull it np by the Roots, and trart- 

 fplant it (by Tufts in a flraight line) to 

 Fields overflown with Water; and where a 

 Field is fabjeft to Weeds, when the Water 

 drys up, they prevent their growth in over- 

 turning the Mud with their Hands in the in- 

 terftices where the Rice is planted. When 

 they Sow Wheats Barley, Pulfe, and other 

 Grains, they grub up fome fuperficial Earth, 

 Grafs and Roots, and with fome Straw they 

 burn all together-, this Earth being fifted 

 fine, they mix with the Seed, which they 

 Sow in holes made in a ftrait Line, and fo 

 grows up in Tufts as the Rice does ; the Field 

 being divided into Beds and harrowed over, 

 both before and after the Seed is Sown r This 

 makes them fomewhat refemble Gardens. 

 tho' they meliorate their Fields, where they 

 Sow Rice, only by letting the Water on them, 

 yet for other Grains,where Ground requires it, 

 they make ufe of Dung, Human Excrements, 

 Afhes, &c. In watering their Fields here they 

 ofe the fame Inftrument mentioned by Marti- 

 ni in the Preface to his Atlas, being all of 

 Wood, and the contrivance the fame with 

 that of a Ghain-Pump. 



" Their method in making of Salt is this : All 

 il\t Shores here being Mud, inftead of Sand, 

 in the Summer Seafon they pare off the fuper- 

 ficial Earth, vvhich has been over-flown with 

 the Salt Water, and lay it up in heaps for ufe ^ 

 when they are to ufe it they dry it in the 

 Sun, rubbing it fmall then digging S Pit, 

 |hey coY?r ti)? bpttotn thereof with Straw, at 



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