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for ought I know* and could find itj continues to dp Co 
with the like in^ermiffions for 20 or 30 Years. 
In the Years in which the Land is not Plowed, it bear^ 
a fine Grafs mixed with Dafies in abundance 5 and it is 
pleafant to fee a fteep high Mountain, that a fevr Years 
before was all Black with Heath, on a fuddcn look white 
with Dafies and Flowers. 
It fines the Grafs, but makes it (hort rho thick: Obfer-- 
ving that this Manure produced flowers in the Field, I 
made my Gardener ufe tliefe Shells in my Flower Garden, 
and never faw bett-r Carnadons, or Flowers fairer or- 
larger than in that Gold Climate 5 and it contributes to * 
deftroy Weeds, at leaft doth not produce them fo much, 
as Dung 5 it likewife produces very good Potatoes at a- 
bout$ Foot diftance from one another 5 and this is one - 
Method of reducing Bc^y Vjarrtn Land. They lay a little • 
Dung or Straw on the Land, and fprinkle it with Shells 5 - 
fcmetimes they cut the Potatoes if large, that they may 
go the farther, and then dig Trenches about fix or feven 
Foot diftance, and throw the Earth or Soil they take out 
of them on the Potatoes, fo as to cover them, and then 
fencing the Plot of Ground fo planted, let them grow. 
Plant them in J/r/i or Maj', and they are ripe m 3 - 
they dig themasthey have occafion, and let them lie till 
next Year, then dig them again, and fo the third Year, . 
every Year they by this means go deeper in the Earth, and 
the laft they dig them, then p ck them out as carefullya» ' 
they can, that little Seed may remain^ and the fourth . 
Year they Plow the Ground and Sow Barley, and the 
Produce is very good for fome Years j fome Potatoes will- 
remain and grow up without any hurt to the Barley or' 
Oats, and those they dig and pick out, and the Ground 
remains good and Arable ever after; 
Tisobfervable, that Shells do heft in Boggy Ground ^ - 
where the Surface is Turf 5 Turf generally is nothing but 
theProdu<ft. of Vegetables, fuch as Grafs, Heath, &c. 
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