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 Plant all their Crop together? The Fellow 

 fmiled as it were at my Ignorance, and faid, 

 there was very good Reafon for it. I replied, 

 that was it I enquired after. He returned, 

 the Plantation had been an old planted Plan- 

 tation, and being but a fmall Plot of Ground, 

 was almoft worn out, fo that they had not 

 Ground altogether that would bring forth 

 Tobacco. I told him then they had better 

 Ground than ever yet they had planted, and 

 more than their Hands could manage. He 

 fmil'd again, and asked me, where ? I thea 

 named fuch a Swamp. He then faid fcorn- 

 fully, he thought what a Planter I was ; that 

 I underftood better how to make a Sermon, 

 then managing Tobacco. I replied with 

 fome warmnefs, tho' I hoped fo, that was 

 Impertinence, and no Anfwer. He then faid, 

 that the Tobacco there would drown, and 

 the Roots rot. I replied, that the whole 

 Country would drown if the Rivers were 

 ftopt, but it might be laid as dry as any 

 Land on the Plantation. In fhort, we dif- 

 courfed it very warmly, till he told me, he 

 underftood his own Bufinefs well enough, 

 and did not defire to learn of me. But the 

 Gentlewoman attended fomewhat better to 

 my Reafoning, and got me one day to go 

 and fliew her how I projefted the draining 

 of the Swamp, and thought it fo feafible, 

 that Ihe was refolved to have it done ^ and 

 therefore defir'd mel would again Difcourfe 

 her Overfeer, which I did feveral times, but 

 he Would by no means hearken thereto, and 

 was fo pofitive, that fhe was forc'd to turn 

 him away, to have her Servants fet about 



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