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their planting the Corn, which they do by 

 making little Holes in the Earth at a com-^ 

 petent Diftance, and putting Seeds into 

 them. 



It may be that if thofe Shrubs were de- 

 ftroyed, the Matter might be mended, which 

 yet is not to be hop'd for, but by bringing 

 the People to fome kind of Induftry, and 

 that will not be eafie ; they are fo wholly 

 given to La'zinefs, and fo intirely bred up in 

 It, that there muft be the greateft Change 

 imaginable, before they become any whit to- 

 lerable; a Man may fee their Temper by this^ 

 that though their Tillage be very eafie, and 

 the Earth yields many Hundreds for One, yet 

 fo little is the ufe they make of it, that One 

 fcarce Year brings them to danger of Starv- 

 ing, and though there be People enough, and 

 *€V€ry Man has Pov/er of choofing what he 

 will, that is not already Tilfd by fome other, 

 yet not the Tenth Part, as we have faid, is 

 imployed: So that a Man would wonder what 

 came in the French Man's Head to fancy them 

 Induftrious; but fubtile they are, and diligent 

 to Cheat any Man' that is not cautious enough 

 to avoid it 



So that the Fault of the Wood is (by the 



Lazinefs of the People) without any Remedy^ 

 But there may be fomething in the Earth it 

 felf 9 the Water whi(::h they have here in Pits 

 (RainWater for th^moft part,butyet ftrainM 

 through the Earth) has a kind of Tafte mixt 

 of Sweet and Subacid, if I underftand what 

 I fay, I am told 'tis -of Vitriol^ whether 

 that be jnifchievous^ you know better than 



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