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very unfairly treated by the proprietor, my imme¬ 
diate predecessor, laboured under all the following 
disadvantages. In 1765, the year in which he 
purchased, he found it in abandoned Coffee, run 
up wild to the height of from 13 to 20 feet: He 
then cut it down near the ground, and, as the term 
js, rattooned it; that is, let it grow up in sprouts, 
or new shoots. In 1778 he was induced again to 
cut it down, stump up the roots, and plant the 
land in canes ; in which lie cultivated it several 
years.—-A new fit of caprice induced him, many 
years after, to exercise his vengeance upon the 
Can es; which he extirpated, and lined and re-occu¬ 
pied the place of them with Coffee. At this period, 
viz. 1806, forty years from that to which I can 
trace any knowledge of this Coffee, (although it 
was probably planted some seven, eight, or ten 
years previous thereto) it exhibits an appearance 
of as much luxuriance and productiveness as any 
piece of Coffee I know in the Colony ; and affords 
an irrefragable proof of the practicability of renovat¬ 
ing the powers of vegetation, in a soil apparently 
exhausted, 
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In the cultivation of a Sugar Estate, the making of 
Dung is of such importance, that the Cattle-pens 
are shifted to the pieces for which they are destined ; 
which, by being frequently trashed and moulded, 
soon increase to a considerable quantity : but as, 
on Coffee Estates, this practice cannot be adopted, 
the careful Planter will avail himself of all the in¬ 
gredients he can rake up about the buildings, He 
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