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tho' they have very good Lime of Oyfter-flielsi but 
that's the propereft Manure for cold Clay 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 ail their uplands. 
But this, fay they, will not improve Ground, but clods 
and grows hard ; Vis true, it will do (b for fome time , 
a Year or two at the firft ; but did they caft it in heaps, 
and let it lye 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 conjedure ; for 
Difcourfing 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, where- 
upon he did confefs, he then remembred that out of a 
ridge of the like Mold he had had very large Plants, 
which muft have been of the like Slime or Slitch caft up 
before : But faid, that himfelf and others defpaired of 
this Manure, becaufe they had taken of this Slitch frefh 
and moift out of the Swamp, and filled Tobacco Hills 
with it, and in the midft of it planted their Plants, which 
(b bound the Roots of their Plants, that they never came 
to any thing. But he faid, he then few his Error, yet 
I have not heard he has remembred to Correct it. But 
'tis ftrange in how many things befides they are remifs, 
which one would think Engtijh Men fliould not be guilty 
of. They neither Houfe nor Milk any of their Cows in 
Winter, having a Notion that it would kill them yet 
I perfwaded the afore* mentioned Lady where I lived, to 
Milk four Cows the laft Winter that I ftaid in the Coun- 
try, whereof {he found fo good Effect, that fhe afiured 
me Ihe would keep to my Advice for the future and 
alfb as I had further urged, Houfe them too, for which 
they have mighty Conveniences, their Tobacco Houfes 
