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the Wheat-patch, flle, the Gentlewoman 

 where I lived, faved all her Cattle, and loft 

 not one in Two Winters after, that I ftaid 

 there ^ befides fhe faved above Twenty Bar- 

 rels of Corn, as I remember that flie told 

 me file ufed to fpend upon her Stock and 

 a Barrel of Corn is commonly worth Ten 

 Shillings. Nay further, The laft Spring flie 

 fed Two Beafts, a Bullock and a Cow, Fat, 

 upon her Wheat, with the addition only of 

 a little boil'd Corn, and yet the Wheat was 

 fcarce eat down enough. But to return again 

 to the Nature of the Earth, which may be 

 pretty well gathered from what I have al- 

 ready faid. I have obferved, that at Five 

 or Six yards deep, at the breaks of fome 

 banks, I have found veins of Clay, admira- 

 ble good to make Pots, Pipes, or the like 

 of, and whereof I fuppofe the Indians make 

 their Pipes, and Pots, to boil their Meat in, 

 which they make very handfbmly, and will 

 endure the Fire better than moft Crucibles : 

 I took of this Clay, dryed, powder'd, and 

 fifted it ; powdered and lifted Potflierds, 

 and Glafs Three parts. Two parts and One 

 part as I remembei% and therewith made a f 

 large Crucible, which was the beft I yet ever 

 , tried in my Life ^ I took it once red hot out 

 of the Fire, and clapt it immediately into 

 Water,and it ftarted not at all. The Country 

 abounds mightily with Iron Oar, that as 

 I have been affured by fome upon tryal, 

 has been found very good. There are Rocks 

 thereof appear at the precipice of Hills, at 

 the foot whereof there runs a River fit for a 

 Forge, and there's Wood enough to.fupply 



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