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may be continued in a conftant round of cul- 

 tivation, yielding as prolific crops as upon its 

 earlieft culture ; and this is now found to be 

 no lefs certain, than that if the land be fubjedb- 

 ed to continued tillage, without fuch fupply, 

 it will be fo exhaufted, in the courfe of a few 

 years, as not to give fufficient produce to com- 

 penfate the labour and expence of cultiva- 

 tion. 



The fame fa&s equally apply to Bar- 

 badoes, where, if the artificial fupply be not 

 commenfurate with the produce removed from 

 the land, a gradual diminution of the crops 

 will fucceed, or, in order to have thefe in their 

 ufua! abundance, the acres in cultivation rauft 

 be reduced to fuch a number as the ifland mall 

 be capable of furnifhing with an adequate quan- 

 tity of manure ; and we accordingly find that 

 great herds of a fmall fpecies of cattle, moftly 

 fteers, are kept upon the plantations,forthe pur- 

 pofe of fupplying this indifpenfable addition to 

 the foil. Thefe are employed inftead of horfes 

 in the heavy labour of the eflate, and we often 

 fee from twelve to twenty-four of them yoked 

 in a waggon, drawing a fingle hogfhead of 

 fugar, or forne other fmall load, fuch as in 



