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tation of the negroes, the latter mull of courfe have been 
always inadequate to the work; whence the only change 
luch a method of culture could ever admit of con filled 
in making a little more fugar in a good feafon, and a 
little lefs in a bad one. 
The fecond method, which I call the fyftem of culti- 
vation in the great way, and is that which has been either 
oiiginally followed or adopted wherever the number of 
negroes has been anfwerable to the affurance the llave- 
merchant had of receiving the price he had agreed to 
take for them, confifts, firft, in planting a fourth or fifth 
of one’s land in October, November, and December, 
when, all the other bufinefs of the plantation being 
fimfhed, there is time to give to this important one all 
the attention if deferves. 
2dly, 
negres, dont la quantile fc trouvoit toujours ainfi difproportionee aux travaux, 
le feul changement que l’avidite d’etendre fes plantations ait pu admettre dans le 
premier plan, a done ete de faire un peu plus de fucre dans la bonne faifon et un 
peu moms dans la mauvaife. 
L’autre methode quej’appelle le fyfteme de la grande culture a ete fuivie od 
troZZ tT tOUS Pai " °“ h fadliti ^ f£ Pr ° CUrer d6S ne S re ^«e propor- 
t ton nee a 1 avantage qu’on avoit foin d’affurer au marchand, d’en recevoir le 
payement aux termes ftipules. Cette methode confifte, a planter qTa rt 
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