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good 5 oil from washing away. For as it is neces¬ 
sary to keep the soil loose and mellow, it would all. 
wash away with hard rains, if not prevented, byr 
some such means. Again, such lands-are G.h^ap>" 
being unfit for other purposes, and'generally yield-^ 
ing little timber or grass. They may therefore 
purchased by poor people, who could not afford^tpv 
pay for good lands. Lastly,: these steep hills andf 
mountains always yield the finest grapes and riohestv 
wines, the value and price of which will compen* 
sate for any extraordinary labor. 
If your ground; be worn and-out of heart, it must; 
be renewed and helped with dung; with fresh 
mould ; with creek-mud mellowedi by heat and 
frost; with the rich-soil that lodges;along the sides 
of brooks, and rivers, or that settles in low places at 
the foot of hills and mountains ; with foddering 
cattle and sheep upon it; or by any other method 
which will answer the purpose and siik the owner. 
If your ground be stiff, it mayr be meiidfed by a 
good store of sand, ashes, soot, the rubbish and 
mortar of old buildings, well poUndedj especially 
if such mortar be made of Hme and/sand ; by the 
dust and small coal of coal-kilns, and the earth that 
they are covered with, when they are burnt : sea 
sand or fine gravel, and plenty of fowl’s and sheep’s, 
dung,:or the old dung of neat cattle., 
