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The manner of performing this part of the bu¬ 
siness is so very simple as to require little explana¬ 
tion. Indeed, if the Surface was of such a kind as 
to admit your laying out the Ground in squares, 
little direction on this head would be required ; 
but as Coffee Estates are generally situated in the 
up-lands, where the surface is very irregular, a 
mode of reducing such irregular surfaces to as re¬ 
gular figures as possible may not be improper in a 
treatise on this subject. And as the Author is at 
the present moment about planting some new pieces 
of Coffee of this description, he shall submit, for 
the consideration of others, his mode of doing it, 
leaving the adoption of his method to such only as 
may approve it. 
The piece of Land, of which he makes the ex¬ 
ample in the present instance, is of the kind of Sur¬ 
face which the Coffee-Planter will have most fre¬ 
quently to deal with, viz, a hill-side, circumscribed 
at top and bottom by two nearly parallel roads ; 
on one end by the boundary of his Neighbour, of 
which the obliquity prevents his making that end 
square, and, on the other end, by some rocks and 
cliffs, which oppose the same obstacle to regularity 
of figure. 
Coffee rows, like the rows of Cane-holes, in 
Lands having a slope, should be planted as nearly 
level as possible, both for the convenience of work¬ 
ing, and preventing of washes ; with this differ¬ 
ence, that the angular points of Canc-holes, not 
being 
