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Sulphurious Particles, neither is, nor ever will make any 
thing of a rich Sraoak. Difcourfing hereof fbme days 
fince, to a Gentleman of good Obfervation, that has been 
verfed with Maulting, he affured me, to back this my 
Suppofuion, or Hypochefis, he had obferved,ThatBarly 
that grew on ftiff Ground, required more time confide- 
rably to mellow, and come to perfection, than that that 
grew in light Land. Having proceeded thus far to fpeak 
of Tobacco, I (hall add one or two things more. The 
Planters differ in their Judgments about the Time of 
Planting, or Pitching their Crops : fome are for Pitching 
their Crops very early, others late, without any diflin- 
ttion of the Nature of theSoyls ; and 'tis from the diffe- 
rent Effefts that they find, in that, fometimes early, fome- 
times the late Planting fucceeds : but they have not the 
Reafon to judge of the Caufe, to confider the Accidents 
of the Year, and the Difference of the Soyls. In fandy 
Grounds they need not ftrive fo much for early Plant- 
ing, the loofenefs of the Earth , and the kind natured 
Soyl, yielding all that it can, eaftly and fpeedily, and Sand 
retaining the hear, makes the Plants grow fafter. But 
in ftiff Soyls, if the Crops be not early pitch'd, fo that 
during the Seafon of Rains it have got confiderable 
Roots, and flhot them fome depth, if early Droughts 
come, it fo binds the Land, that the Roots never fpread 
or fhoot deeper, or further than the . Hill that they are 
planted in : for they plant them as we do Cabbages, 
raifing Hills to fet every Plant in, about the bignefs of 
a common Mole-hill : obferving this on the Plantation 
where I lived, that it was ftiff Ground, I advifed them 
to plant their Crops as early as poffible and in order 
thereunto, I tried feveral ways to further the Plants,- but 
not to trouble you with the feveral Experiments that I 
made, in reference thereto : What I found moft advan- 
tagious was, by taking an infufion of Horfe-dung, and 
putting thereon Soot, and then my Seeds this I kept 
