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that's the propereft Manure for cold Glay 

 Land, and not for a Sandy Soil. But as moft 

 Lands have one Swamp or another bordering 

 on them, they may certainly get admirable 

 Slitch, wherewith to Manure all their up- 

 lands. But this, fty they, will not improve 

 Ground, but clods and grows hard ; 'tis 

 true, it will do fo for fome time, a Year or 

 two at the firft; but did they caft it in heaps, 

 and let it lie for two or three Years after a 

 Froft or two had feized it, and it had been 

 well pierced therewith, I doubt not it would 

 turn to good Account : And for this too I 

 have fomething more than bare conjeAure ; 

 for Difcourling it once with a good notable 

 Planter, we went to view a heap thereof^ 

 that cafually he had caft up 'twixt three and 

 four Years before, and we found it not very 

 binding, but rather a fine Natural Mold, 

 whereupon he did confeis, he then remem- 

 bred that out of a ridge of the like Mold 

 he had very large Plants, which muft have 

 been of the like Slime or Slitch caft up be^- 

 forc : But faid, that himfelf and others de^ 

 fpaired of this Manure, becaufe they had. 

 taken of this Slitch frefh and moift out of 

 the Swamp, and filFd Tobacco Hills with it, 

 and in the^midft of it planted their Plants^ 

 which fo bound the Roots of their Plants, 

 that they never came to any thing* But he 

 faid, he then faw his Error, yet I have not 

 heard iie has remembred to Correct it But 

 'tis ftrange in how many things befides they 

 are remifs, which one would think EngUjh 

 Men fhould not be guilty of They neither 

 ISoufe nor Milk any of their Cows in Win-' 



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