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fore the oxen and pulls them on by a 
rope tied round their horns; and some 
with spades follow to level the furrow 
and break the clods. Such seed as I 
saw, was nbt so good as that called draw- 
ings, or small corn, in Britain, and was 
also chaffy, and seemingly of a bad 
species. 
From the appearance of the stubble, it 
was evident, that their crops were neither 
luxuriant nor prolific. 
So prevalent is their rage for fishing, 
that the only land used in husbandry, is 
that along the sea coast, which bears no 
proportion to that lying waste and uncul¬ 
tivated. 
In some places where the soil is fertile, 
the crops are early, especially where the 
substratum is limestone; but the seasons 
are so various, that it is impossible to 
state the precise time of harvest. 
Their grain crop consists of a small 
kind of black or grey oats, and a species 
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