ging over the soil like a garden. Their 
spade is narrow, like that used in cutting 
peats, and not at all similar to that with 
which they dig in Britain and Ireland. 
After the seed is sown, (which they do 
in a very awkward manner, going back¬ 
wards as if sowing onion seeds,) the wo¬ 
men drag a kind of harrow, made wholly 
of wood, over it, taking hold of a straw 
rope fastened to the harrow, which pas¬ 
ses over their shoulders. 
This I have seen them do, at the same 
time that the men were lying beside 
them looking on. 
In Mainland, where the farms are more 
level and extensive, they make use of a 
sort of plough, such as was common ill 
times of remote antiquity, and which a 
man may carry to any distance in one 
hand. The ploughman walks by the 
side of the plough, which he directs by a 
small handle fixt on the top of it. The 
driver (if so he may he called,) goes be- 
